middle-aged
adjective
being of the age intermediate between youth and old age, roughly between 45 and 65.
middle-agedness
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a word derived from
middle-aged.
Example Sentences
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Yet it gives the description a spin, as well as a subtlety, that it otherwise lacks, and it shows that the glasses are not part of the middle-agedness, but something else.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not about the missiles or Nicaragua -- about middle-agedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tenderness crept into her eyes, and her freckles seemed to fade out, and even the small blunt nose of her take on middle-agedness and motherliness.
From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Annie Hamilton Donnell
"But you may have found new sources of interest," suggested I, perhaps a little too tenderly, for I had some sympathy with her dread of that particular phase of existence, middle-agedness.
From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Anne Wales Abbot
