The time of life between early adulthood and middle age.
‘Forget the fears about kids growing up too fast - Valentine's Day now seems more representative of what has been termed middle youth or adultescence, to describe those thirtysomethings who will do anything rather than grow up.’
‘Have those of us in middle youth become the victims of a watered-down version of Logan's Run, that film in which men and women are quietly eliminated at the age of 30?’
‘Now, I ask you, does that really seem such a lot when you're entering the full bloom of middle youth and starting to discover its blessings of thread veins, eye bags, slack jowls and wrinkles?’
‘They make up 2% of British males but most are well past middle youth.’
‘The real cash is with people in their middle youth, which is anywhere between 45 and 65.’
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