IDENTITY CRISIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does identity crisis mean? 

• IDENTITY CRISIS (noun)
  The noun IDENTITY CRISIS has 1 sense:

1. distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society

  Familiarity information: IDENTITY CRISIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDENTITY CRISIS (noun)

Meaning:

Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("identity crisis" is a kind of...):

mental state; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)