midlife

See also: mid-life

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Etymology

mid- +‎ life

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Adjective

midlife (not comparable)

  1. Occurring in the middle point of one's life, usually considered about 45.

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Noun

midlife (plural midlives)

  1. The middle period of one's life.
    • 2003, Barbara Schave Klein, Not all twins are alike: psychological profiles of twinship, page 57:
      Twins from all the patterns of twinship experienced this emotional disaster as young adults or in their midlives.
    • 2007 August 12, Curtis Pesmen, “As Survivors, We Were Closer Than Lovers”, in New York Times‎:
      Now we were writing, talking, sharing bits of our lives again, glad that both of us were able to talk about our midlives (which we realized could very well have been our late lives).

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