mid-life crisis

See also: midlife crisis

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mid-life crisis (plural mid-life crises)

  1. (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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