Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun identity_crisis

1 sense of identity crisis

Sense 1
identity crisis -- (distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one's role in society)
       => psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition -- ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic; "a manic state")