regression
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7.6
- noun
- /rɪˈɡrɛʃən/
- Specialized
- Following his surgery, there was noticeable regression in her physical therapy progress, requiring additional support from the therapist.
- regression to the mean
- regression analysis
- regression model
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Watch on YouTubeSo I actually think this is part of a bigger regression in society.
- So I actually think this is part of a bigger regression in society.
- Do you do or believe in past life regressions?
- Even as we're struggling not to go back and to have the forces of regression gain the upper hand.
- Now this should strike us as perhaps a kind of regression.
- But how does one prepare for that, that dip, that speed bump that, you know, the regression, the relapse?
- She says it fuels not positive activism, but regression, obsession, vengeance, self righteousness.
- And so there seems to be a kind of regression toward what I'm calling the emojification or the kind of high amplitude expression with, with blunt tools.
- So when you're doing a past life regression, if you are able to kind of get into that zone, in theory, we might say you're able to access things.
- Next is bet wedding or regression.
- It was felt like a strange kind of like regressing, but progress at the same time, progressive regression.
- Can itself start to see kind of starts that can itself start to seem like a problem because it means that you'll be intolerant towards any regression.
Examples
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The patient exhibited a regression in behavior after a traumatic event, showing signs of a less developed emotional state.
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She suffered a spontaneous regression.
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So I actually think this is part of a bigger regression in society.
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This is what regression therapy did for me.
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Now, I'd like to take you through... a childhood regression process.
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But the former showed regression from democracy, whereas the latter demonstrated significant progress toward democracy.
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It has come to my attention lately that your school work has suffered a serious regression.
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An increasing number of activists are currently linking the Arab transition to democracy with a regression in women's rights.
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The student also showed a regression in terms of utilizing the anxiety coping strategies.
Academic text (2013) -
Yet sometimes, severe psychotic regressions can cause a fragile psyche to revert to this primitive stage of life.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.7
Moving back to an earlier state instead of making progress
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6.5
A return to being ill or to a bad habit after getting better
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6.9
A return to an earlier state or condition
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7.2
A return to old bad habits after making progress
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7.2
Returning to a bad condition after getting better
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8.1
A return to an earlier, less developed or worse state
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8.9
A change back to an earlier, worse state in a country or system
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9.9
A return of a disease or problem after a time when things got better
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9.9
A return to an earlier state or style
Antonyms
Compounds
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6.6
A way that uses past data to find how one thing depends on others and predict it
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3.9
A way to use a straight line to show how one number changes with another
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6.0
A straight or smooth curved line drawn through dots shows how two numbers change together
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8.5
A very high or very low result usually comes before a result closer to the average
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8.5
How much one number changes when another number goes up by one
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6.0
A method that finds how one value depends on others to predict that value
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7.8
A math formula that predicts one number from one or more other numbers
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6.4
A smooth line or curve fitted to data points to show how two things are related
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A way to predict one thing from another using a straight-line equation like y = ax + b
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Surface Forms
Morphology
regression = regress (semi-transparent) = re + gress + ion
If a learner knows the verb 'regress', the noun 'regression' is a standard and easily interpretable action or process noun.
Etymology
Regression comes from Latin parts re- 'back' and gress 'step', the same root you see in progress. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a 'step back'—in psychology or medicine a regression is when someone returns to an earlier, less developed stage.