Definition of "midlife" []

• See middle age. (noun)
• Of, relating to, or characteristic of middle age: "a midlife lull when it was feared he was finished” ( Curtis Wilkie). (adjective)

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• "BECK: I am traveling the -- I ` m traveling the country, doing what I call the midlife crisis tour, and it is amazing, when you get out of New York or -- I ` m sure it ` s the same in Los Angeles -- you get into the middle of the country or you get out of just those two cities, and everything becomes more real."
• "In what she calls a "midlife affair with meds," Porizkova said she hoped that medication would calm her nerves and make it easier on her husband of 24 years and two children."
• "The word "midlife" didn't appear in the dictionary until 1895."