VICISSITUDE
[noun]
1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. vicissitudes; successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. change; mutation; mutability.
(via lord-queueington)
