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quarterlife crisis

British  
/ ˈkwɔːtəˌlaɪf /

noun

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

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

From The New Yorker • Dec. 20, 2018

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