mid-life crisis

See also: midlife crisis

English

Alternative forms

• midlife crisis

Noun

mid-life crisis (plural mid-life crises)

1. (psychology) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by middle-aged people who realize that their life is already half over.
   • 1978, Daniel J. Levinson, The Seasons of a Man's Life‎^[1], Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 26:

     Though we prefer the word "transition" in naming this period, our view of it owes much to his. The Mid-life Transition may be rather mild. When it involves considerable turmoil and disruption, we speak of a mid-life crisis.

Related terms

• quarter-life crisis
• existential crisis

Translations

emotional period of doubt

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結構性中年危機／结构性中年危机 (jiégòuxìng zhōngnián wēijī), 中年危機／中年危机 (zhōngnián wēijī)

• Czech: krize středního věku f
• Danish: midtlivskrise c
• Dutch: midlifecrisis (nl) f
• Finnish: keski-iän kriisi
• French: crise de la quarantaine (fr) f
• German: Midlife-Crisis (de) f, Midlifekrise f
• Hungarian: kapuzárási pánik (hu)
• Japanese: ミドルエイジクライシス (midoru-eiji kuraishisu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: midtlivskrise m or f

  Nynorsk: midtlivskrise m or f

• Polish: kryzys wieku średniego (pl) m
• Portuguese: crise da meia-idade f
• Russian: кри́зис сре́днего во́зраста (ru) m (krízis srédnevo vózrasta)
• Spanish: crisis de la mediana edad f
• Swedish: medelålderskris (sv) c
• Turkish: orta yaş krizi, orta yaş bunalımı