Meaning and example
a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
The project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.397 places vicissitude in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 65.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 65.7%
fearless daring
- Known by
- 65.5%
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Known by
- 65.8%
the state of being more than full
- Known by
- 65.9%
from 345 million to 280 million years ago
- Known by
- 66%
an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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