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Mar. 07, 2017
middlescence\mid-l-ES-uh ns\noun
1. the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a
difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
QuotesJust as poor Alonso Quijano, in middle age, was so bewitched by
the novels of chivalry that he declared himself Don Quixote de la
Mancha, the Knight of Doleful Aspect, so the skipper of Rocinante
Cuatro, in his middlescence, was led by his passion for Cervantes's
novel to identify himself with both its hero and, eventually, its
author.
-- John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, 1987
Origin of middlescenceMiddlescence is a blend of middle and
adolescence. It entered English in the 1960s.More From
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