middlescence

English

Etymology

Blend of middle age +‎ adolescence.

Noun

middlescence (uncountable)

1. 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

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