regression
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When you experience regression, you "go back" in some way. If you've been trying to break your sugar habit but one day eat several pieces of cake, that's regression.
Remember that the suffix -ion is added to a verb to make it into a noun, making regression the noun form of the verb "to regress." We can find regression, meaning "the act of going back," as far back as the late 1300s, from the Latin regressus, which means "a return." When you see all your old friends (and enemies) at a school reunion, you might experience regression and start acting like your younger self.
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returning to a former state
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synonyms:
regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion
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type of:
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reversal
a change from one state to the opposite state
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reversal
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
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defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction
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an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
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synonyms:
arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation
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abnormalcy, abnormality
an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
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abnormalcy, abnormality
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the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
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linear regression, rectilinear regression
the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b
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curvilinear regression
the relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order)
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statistical method, statistical procedure
a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic
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linear regression, rectilinear regression
Vocabulary lists containing regression
Based loosely on the classic I, Claudius by Robert Graves, this novel follows Claudia McCarthy's rise to power in the Honors Council and Student Senate at Imperial Day Academy.
Eleven-year-old Harriet faces difficulties when her personal notebook — full of detailed observations about her friends, classmates, and neighbors — ends up in the wrong hands.
Sixteen-year-old Bree attempts to infiltrate a secret society of magicians in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death.
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