Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

identity crisis

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: iden-ti-ty cri-sis
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A crisis of personal identity.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Coined by German psychologist Erik Erikson.

Inflected Forms

identity crises (plural)

Questions

What does identity crisis mean?: A crisis of personal identity.
Where does identity crisis come from?: Coined by German psychologist Erik Erikson.

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