mid-life crisis
See also: midlife crisis
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Noun
mid-life crisis (plural mid-life crises)
- (psychology) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by people who realize that their life is already half over.
- 1978, Daniel J. Levinson, The Seasons of a Man's Life, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 26:
- Though we prefer the word "transition" in naming this period, our view of it owes much to his. The Mid-life Transition may be rather mild. When it involves considerable turmoil and disruption, we speak of a mid-life crisis.
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emotional period of doubt
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