middlescence
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of middle age + adolescence.
Noun edit
middlescence (uncountable)
- The period or condition of middle age, especially as a time of transition comparable to adolescence.
- 1988, Josiah Thompson, Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye, Fawcett Crest, published 1989, →ISBN, page 65:
- Or was I a broken-down college professor living out a spasm of middlescence on the golden coast of Califomia?
Quotations edit
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