middlescencen.

1965 N.Y. Times 5 Dec. iv. 10/3 Middlescence, that awkward age between youth and premature grave in which the parent undergoes alarming physical and emotional change.

1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 Nov. 5/1 If the corporation doesn't know how to deal with middlescence..it might find itself ‘drained of crucial managerial resources’.

1975 Financial Times 8 Dec. 6/1 Somewhere between the ages of 35 and 60 some—but not all—men go through what is variously termed a ‘mid-life crisis’, the ‘male metapause syndrome’, ‘middlescence’.

1985 Times 8 Nov. 13/1 Making favourable comparison with colleagues..when it came to weathering the onslaught of middlescence, the news hit me like a hammer.

1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 328 Political fervor..will indeed extend the marriage another four years..—at the end of which, our ‘middlescence’ largely behind us..we shall be in altogether better position to effect what will nevertheless prove..an acrimonious and scarifying split.