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midlife

midlife

7 3.9
Happening in the middle of a person's adult life
  • adjective
  • /ˈmɪdˌlaɪf/
translation icon : de mediana edad
  • Maybe it is just a midlife crisis.
  • midlife women
  • midlife and older

I do think I've had like a midlife assessment.

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Examples

  • Are there relationships between a midlife woman's body image and specific sexual response changes?

    Academic text (2005)
  • Many people experience significant changes during midlife, such as reassessing their career goals.

  • Well, the first thing I would, I would say and I would have said to myself is that welcome to midlife for sure.

  • But knowing what I know about the life cycle of a woman and what happens in midlife, before I even address the shoulder.

  • So why not realize that midlife is full of transitions.

  • And you'd be surprised that it's not just people in midlife who feel this way.

  • Because what we were seeing is that already in midlife, women show these red flags of Alzheimer's disease in their brains, whereas men do not.

  • Throughout women's lives, their weight tends to be a recurring issue, and this concern is quite evident among midlife women.

    Academic text (2005)
  • For some, midlife brings a deeper understanding of personal relationships and priorities.

  • The midlife phase can be a time of reflection and self-discovery.

Synonyms

middle-aged
vsmidlife
133 2.6

A person who is about 45 to 65 years old

is a broader life stage covering the middle period between young adulthood and old age

Antonyms

164 1.0

The time between childhood and adulthood when someone is young

109 2.0

The later part of life after middle age when people often retire and may lose strength

How Old

elderly
68 2.0
midlife
7 3.9
mature
199 3.3
adult
1.0
young
1.0

Surface Forms

midlife positive

Morphology

midlife = life (transparent) = mid + life

The meaning is directly built from 'mid-' (middle) + 'life' and is readily inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word midlife is made from mid- 'middle' and life. So as an adjective it describes things that happen in the middle of a person's life.