variation vs vicissitude

vicissitude vs variation

variation and vicissitude both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
variation	Yes	No	No	No
vicissitude	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, vicissitude is a hyponym of variation; that is, vicissitude is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than variation:

variation: an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
vicissitude: a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something

Other hyponyms of variation include allomerism, departure, deviation, difference, divergence, permutation, replacement, substitution, switch, transposition, business cycle, trade cycle, daily variation, diurnal variation, tide.

variation (noun)	vicissitude (noun)
an activity that varies from a norm or standard	mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard	a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
(ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
something a little different from others of the same type
a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
(astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
the process of varying or being varied
the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north

Difference between variation and vicissitude

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