MIDDLESCENCE

PRONUNCIATION: (mid-uhl-ES-uhns)

MEANING: noun: The middle-age period of life.

ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after adolescence. Earliest documented use: 1965 (adolescence is from 1425).
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MUDDLESCENCE - the next phase characterized by lapses but not yet demented

MIDDLESCIENCE - more than introductory but not an advanced degree

MINDLESCENCE - what Jedi have to study