A midlife crisis is a period of doubt and anxiety that some people experience in middle age, when they think about whether their life is the kind of life that they want.
I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
midlife crisis in British English
(ˈmɪdˌlaɪf)
noun
a crisis that may be experienced in middle age involving frustration, panic, and feelings of pointlessness, sometimes resulting in radical and often ill-advised changes of lifestyle
Examples of 'midlife crisis' in a sentence
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Is it just all about the female midlife crisis?
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There are two kinds of midlife crises men endure, or possibly enjoy.
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Not that he's having any kind of midlife crisis.
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Maybe it's a kind of midlife crisis.
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People make jokes about the midlife crisis, but it is as painful as the turmoil of our adolescent years.
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I suppose at least it's a benign, healthy kind of midlife crisis.
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A publisher friend suggests I write a book about having a midlife crisis.