Usually means: Distress from children leaving home.
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  1. empty-nest syndrome: Merriam-Webster
  2. empty-nest syndrome, empty-nest syndrome: Collins English Dictionary
  3. empty-nest syndrome: Wiktionary
  4. empty-nest syndrome: Dictionary.com
  5. empty-nest syndrome: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (Empty-nest syndrome)

noun:  Alternative form of empty nest syndrome [A feeling of loneliness or depression experienced by some parents when their children have matured and left home.]

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