midlife crisis
Noun
Meaning
midlife crisis (plural midlife crises)
Alternative spelling of mid-life crisis
Synonyms
Examples
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my longevity.
Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.