midlife
nounEtymology From mid- + life.
1
The middle period of one's life.
- Twins from all the patterns of twinship experienced this emotional disaster as young adults or in their midlives.2003, Barbara Schave Klein, Not all twins are alike: psychological profiles of twinship, page 57:
- Now we were writing, talking, sharing bits of our lives again, glad that both of us were able to talk about our midlives (which we realized could very well have been our late lives).2007 August 12, Curtis Pesmen, “As Survivors, We Were Closer Than Lovers”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- mid-life crisis, midlifer