quarterlife crisis

/ ˈkwɔːtəˌlaɪf /

noun

1. a crisis that may be experienced in one's twenties, involving anxiety over the direction and quality of one's life

Example Sentences

Experts offer tools to navigate a “quarterlife crisis.”

From New York Times

A quarterlife crisis feels at once like life is unceremoniously ending and somehow only just beginning.

From The New Yorker

Then my quarterlife crisis happened and I quit my job, sold my stuff and moved to New York.

From Forbes