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returning to a former (less advanced) stateSpecialized definitions of regression include:
- tax policy: regressive taxes cost the poor more relative to their income than the rich
- statistics: move toward the mean
- psychology: go back to more childish behavior
- parapsychology: return in one's mind to a previous life (usually under hypnosis)
- logic: reasoning from conclusion to evidence
- The drug caused tumors to regress in 60% of the patients who were treated.
regress = returned to a former (less advanced) state
- Sometimes when I'm talking with my mother, I feel like I regress to my childhood.
- Not only have they not made progress, they have regressed.
- Reviewing the data on Algernon: although he is still in his physical youth, he has regressed mentally.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
- How does Algernon's regression affect the basic hypothesis of the experiment?Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
- What eludes me is the reason for his regression—is it a special case?Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
- There might be regression to an even more primitive level of functioning.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
- I'm not afraid of regression any more.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
regress = return to (the mental state of)
regressed = returned to a less-advanced state
regressed = returned to a former (less advanced) state
regression = return to a former (less advanced) state
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
regression = return to a former (less advanced) state
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
regression = return to a former (less advanced) state
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
regression = return to a former (less advanced) state
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
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