Usually means: Parents sad after children leave.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. empty-nest syndrome: Merriam-Webster
  2. empty nest syndrome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. empty-nest syndrome, empty-nest syndrome: Collins English Dictionary
  4. empty nest syndrome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. empty-nest syndrome, empty nest syndrome: Wiktionary
  6. empty nest syndrome: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. empty-nest syndrome, empty nest syndrome: Dictionary.com
  8. Empty nest syndrome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. empty-nest syndrome, empty nest syndrome: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. empty nest syndrome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Empty-nest syndrome, empty nest syndrome: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. empty nest syndrome: A Word A Day
  2. empty nest syndrome: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (empty nest syndrome)

▸ noun:  A feeling of loneliness or depression experienced by some parents when their children have matured and left home.

Similar:
empty-nest syndrome, empty nest, empty nester, empty-nester, empty space, nestlessness, loneliness, vacuum, parentlessness, matelessness, more...

Opposite:
full nest syndrome

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Similar:
empty-nest syndrome, empty nest, empty nester, empty-nester, empty space, nestlessness, loneliness, vacuum, parentlessness, matelessness, more...

Opposite:
full nest syndrome



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