backsliding

Other forms: backslidings

Definitions of backsliding
  1. noun
    a failure to maintain a higher state
    synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
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    types:
    recidivism
    habitual relapse into crime
    type of:
    failure
    an act that fails
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