Regression

Noun

 * 1) An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
 * 2) * 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
 * Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
 * 1)  A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
 * 2)  An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
 * 3)  An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
 * 4)  The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.

Antonyms

 * progression

Derived terms

 * linear regression
 * regression to the mean
 * regression testing (computing)
 * regression therapy (psychotherapy)

Thesaurus
Brownian movement, Freudian fixation, about-face, advance, angular motion, arrested development, ascending, ascent, atavism, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, career, climbing, comedown, course, current, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descending, descent, deterioration, devolution, disenchantment, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward motion, downward trend, drift, driftage, drop, dying, ebb, ebbing, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling back, falling-off, father fixation, fixation, flight, flip-flop, flow, flux, forward motion, infantile fixation, involution, lapse, libido fixation, loss of tone, mother fixation, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, parent fixation, passage, plunging, pregenital fixation, progress, radial motion, random motion, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, recrudescence, recurrence, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, renewal, restitution, restoration, retreat to immaturity, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rising, run, rush, set, setback, sideward motion, sinking, slippage, slipping back, slump, soaring, sternway, stream, subsiding, throwback, traject, trajet, trend, turn, turnabout, upward motion, wane

Translations

 * Finnish: taantuminen, regressio
 * Greek: οπισθοδρόμηση
 * Japanese: 回帰 (kaiki)


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: پاشۆچوون
 * Norwegian:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: απόκλιση
 * Icelandic: aðhvarf
 * Japanese: 回帰 (kaiki)


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: پاشۆچوون
 * Norwegian:

Noun
regression