vagary

Definitions


[vəˈɡɛːri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behaviour
(e.g: the vagaries of the weather)


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Origin:
late 16th century (also as a verb in the sense ‘roam’): from Latin vagari ‘wander’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries