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Vacillation vs Vicissitude - What's the difference?

vacillation | vicissitude |

As nouns the difference between vacillation and vicissitude

is that vacillation is indecision in speech or action while vicissitude is regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.

vacillation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Indecision in speech or action.
  • Changing location by moving back and forth.

    • Synonyms

    * (indecision) hesitation, wavering * (motion) swing, swinging

    See also

    *vacillate

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    vicissitude

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
  • (often, in the plural) a change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost , vii, 351,
    • And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude ...
  • * 2003 , "US redeployments afoot in Asia", Christian Science Monitor , Nov. 18, Pg. 6.,
    • The vicissitudes of war in Iraq cast a dreary backdrop for Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to Asian military allies since he became US Defense Secretary in 2001.
  • * Seneca
    • Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

    Synonyms

    * ups and downs (informal)

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