quarter-life crises

A form of quarter-life crisis — A situation resembling the mid-life crisis but taking place earlier, when roughly a quarter of one's adult life has passed, typically in one's twenties or thirties.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of quarter-life crisis
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