midlife crisis
noun
: a period of emotional turmoil in middle age characterized especially by a strong desire for change
Example Sentences
We knew he was going through a midlife crisis when he bought a new sports car.
Recent Examples on the Web The laugh is heard in Season 6 — pretty regularly, actually, with Diane experimenting once more with psilocybin — but the litigator, amid an all-consuming midlife crisis, might not have much fight left in her anymore. 
Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022 For years, scholars mostly didn’t challenge the conventional wisdom that a traumatic midlife crisis was normal, if not inevitable. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022 And, unlike Bascombe, Andrew does not find himself in the midst of a dreamy midlife crisis, searching for answers. New York Times, 4 June 2022 Somewhere between the ages of 40 and 60 years old, many people experience a midlife crisis. Ebony Williams, ajc, 29 Apr. 2022 Straight Man will see Odenkick make the jump from a sleazy lawyer in New Mexico caught between drug lords to playing an English department chair at a Rust Belt college battling a midlife crisis. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2022 Writing in the journal Motivation and Emotion in 2000, the Cornell sociologist Elaine Wethington found that 90 percent of Americans are familiar with the idea of the midlife crisis and describe it pretty accurately from a psychological standpoint. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022 From making new friends, to finishing your project and learning a new hobby, there are many ways to help tackle the lonely feeling on a midlife crisis. Ebony Williams, ajc, 29 Apr. 2022 Straight Man centers on William Henry Devereaux Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt who is going through a midlife crisis. Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022 See More
Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022 For years, scholars mostly didn’t challenge the conventional wisdom that a traumatic midlife crisis was normal, if not inevitable. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022 And, unlike Bascombe, Andrew does not find himself in the midst of a dreamy midlife crisis, searching for answers. New York Times, 4 June 2022 Somewhere between the ages of 40 and 60 years old, many people experience a midlife crisis. Ebony Williams, ajc, 29 Apr. 2022 Straight Man will see Odenkick make the jump from a sleazy lawyer in New Mexico caught between drug lords to playing an English department chair at a Rust Belt college battling a midlife crisis. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2022 Writing in the journal Motivation and Emotion in 2000, the Cornell sociologist Elaine Wethington found that 90 percent of Americans are familiar with the idea of the midlife crisis and describe it pretty accurately from a psychological standpoint. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022 From making new friends, to finishing your project and learning a new hobby, there are many ways to help tackle the lonely feeling on a midlife crisis. Ebony Williams, ajc, 29 Apr. 2022 Straight Man centers on William Henry Devereaux Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt who is going through a midlife crisis. Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1965, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
midlife crisis
noun
: a period of emotional turmoil in middle age caused by the realization that one is no longer young and characterized especially by a strong desire for change