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mid-life crisis

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by middle-aged people who realize that their life is already half over.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

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23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: crisi de la mitjana edat — emotional period of doubt
  • Chinese Mandarin: 結構性中年危機 /结构性中年危机 (jiégòuxìng zhōngnián wēijī) — emotional period of doubt
  • Chinese Mandarin: 中年危機 /中年危机 (zhōngnián wēijī) — emotional period of doubt
  • Czech: krize středního věku — emotional period of doubt
  • Danish: midtlivskrise — emotional period of doubt
  • Dutch: midlifecrisis — emotional period of doubt
  • Finnish: keski-iän kriisi — emotional period of doubt
  • French: crise de la quarantaine — emotional period of doubt
  • German: Midlife-Crisis — emotional period of doubt
  • German: Midlifekrise — emotional period of doubt
  • Hungarian: kapuzárási pánik — emotional period of doubt
  • Japanese: ミドルエイジクライシス (midoru-eiji kuraishisu) — emotional period of doubt
  • Norwegian Bokmål: midtlivskrise — emotional period of doubt
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: midtlivskrise — emotional period of doubt
  • Polish: kryzys wieku średniego — emotional period of doubt
  • Portuguese: crise da meia-idade — emotional period of doubt
  • Russian: кри́зис сре́днего во́зраста (krízis srédnevo vózrasta) — emotional period of doubt
  • Spanish: crisis de la mediana edad — emotional period of doubt
  • Spanish: crisis de los 40 — emotional period of doubt
  • Spanish: crisis de los 50 — emotional period of doubt
  • Swedish: medelålderskris — emotional period of doubt
  • Turkish: orta yaş krizi — emotional period of doubt
  • Turkish: orta yaş bunalımı — emotional period of doubt