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mid-life crisis

alt. (context psychology English) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by people who realize that their life is already half over. n. (context psychology English) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by people who realize that their life is already half over.

Usage examples of "mid-life crisis".

I was too young for a mid-life crisis, and too old for an attack of conscience.

I can't work in London any more, Ferdie, I'm having a mid-life crisis at twenty-two.

What we have here is a coming-of-age story combined with a mid-life crisis.

And the male, going through a mid-life crisis and terrified by his lack of appeal, manages to get his manhood back.

Normally we only see the manifestations of a Mid-life Crisis, not the dreamer himself.

I feel like I'm going through a kind of, I don't know, mid-life crisis or something.

More fascinating is her supporting cast-- Texas, an ex-cop suffering a mid-life crisis, and Angela, who escapes a religious atmosphere as stifling as the one Volos fled.

Gemma liked to joke that Marissa was her mid-life crisis, even though Marissa was just five years younger, and Gemma was only thirty.

He hadn't had a cigarette since the first day of his mid-life crisis, and he didn't really want one now, except that was what he had always done when he was bored or restless-- smoke a cigarette.