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identity crisis

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A crisis of personal identity.

Equivalents

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Examples

“The postponement of homosexual behavior in men who know⟳ that they are homosexual can cause psychological anxiety and retard mature ego development. The same kind of identity crisis characteristic of heterosexual people in their twenties, in which one discovers, as Erik Erikson puts it, that he is "fatally overcommitted to what he is not," is found in the repressed homosexual.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

identity death identity document identity element identity function identity functor identity matrix

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