ETYM French change, from changer. Related to Change.
1. A thing that is different.
2. A relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event.
3. An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; SYN. alteration, modification.
4. The act of changing something.
5. The result of alteration or modification.
6. A different or fresh set of clothes.
ETYM Latin vicissitudo, from vicis change, turn: cf. French vicissitude. Related to Vicarious.
1. A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in one's life or in the development of something.
2. Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).