retrogression
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8.9
- noun
- /ˌrɛtrəˈɡrɛʃən/
- Formal
:
retroceso
- The government's policies led to a significant retrogression in civil rights over the past decade.
- retrogression in countries
- progress or retrogression
Examples
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But foreign aid quite clearly is neither necessary nor sufficient to elicit growth and development in our modern era, nor is it even capable of preventing long-term economic retrogression in recipient states.
Academic text (2010) -
The purpose of this article is to dig deeper into the widespread belief that cultural factors, more than anything else, explain the rapid economic progress of Asian countries in recent years, as opposed to the slow progress (and even retrogression) of African countries.
Academic text (1994) -
For them, cultural values, more than anything else, explain progress or retrogression in any society.
Academic text (1990) -
In this respect, at least, they represent a retrogression rather than an advance.
Fiction book (1992) -
Moreover, the threat we face from our former adversaries lies as much in their internal weakness or retrogression as in their external strength.
Academic text (2000) -
It is even incriminated as the cause of a kind of social retrogression in developed countries, including new poverty and a growing number of homeless people.
Academic text (2004) -
Broad segments of the Russian populace have suffered a disastrous long-term retrogression in health conditions.
Academic text (2005) -
Thanks to its prolonged economic retrogression, Haiti today is not simply immiserated; it is in fact substantially poorer than it was half a century ago.
Academic text (2010) -
These measures stood in sharp contrast to the political stagnation and retrogression that marked the Tunisian and Egyptian political landscapes and thus set the stage for their 2011 revolutions.
Academic text (2012) -
The cultural sphere can thus become the breeding ground for bourgeois subjectivist ideas, revisionism, and retrogression unless an indefinite series of proletarian cultural revolutions are undertaken.
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Synonyms
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7.6
A return to an earlier, less developed state in behaviour or skills
3
7.2
A return to old bad habits after making progress
3
6.9
A return to an earlier state or condition
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3.7
Moving back to an earlier state instead of making progress
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8.1
A return to an earlier, less developed or worse state
1
9.0
A period when something slowly becomes worse
A return to an earlier state or style
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Surface Forms
Morphology
retrogression = retrogress (transparent) = retro + gress + ion
A straightforward nominalization of the verb 'retrogress' (to move backward); the noun denotes the process or state of moving backward.
Etymology
Retrogression combines the parts retro- meaning 'back' and gress meaning 'step', the same root you see in progress. So retrogression is literally a 'step back', which is why we use it for returning to an earlier or worse state.