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identity crises

identity crises is the plural of identity crisis.

Meaning of identity crisis

Noun

identity crisis (plural identity crises)

  1. A crisis of personal identity.
    • 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...1976 February 7, Philip Gambone, “Coming Out: The Gay Identity Process”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 4

Questions about identity crises

What is identity crises the plural of?
Identity crises is the plural of identity crisis.

Words near identity crises in the dictionary

  1. identity broker
  2. identity brokers
  3. identity card
  4. identity cards
  5. Identity Christianity
  6. identity crises
  7. identity crisis
  8. identity death
  9. identity deaths
  10. identity document
  11. identity documents

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