middle age

noun

1. the period of human life between youth and old age, sometimes considered as the years between 45 and 65 or thereabout.

middle age

noun

1. the period of life between youth and old age, usually (in man) considered to occur approximately between the ages of 40 and 60

Word History and Origins

Origin of middle age¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

I learned that he found out he was autistic in middle age but always thought he was neurodivergent, even if that term was not yet in the zeitgeist.

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In middle age, he says, you tend to look back to know who you are, but his next film might do something else.

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Middle age seemed like a kind of afterlife, the dreary pasture where you wiled away your post-sex, post-fun years in drab, shapeless garments.

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Rather than the dreary pasture where fun and sex go to die, middle age has turned out to be a verdant place where I don’t give a s— about the male gaze, whether internalized or external.

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Imagine being bored in middle age.

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Related Words

• midlife