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Regression   /rəgrˈɛʃən/   Listen
Regression

noun
1.
An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely.  Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation.
2.
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state.
3.
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).  Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression.
4.
Returning to a former state.  Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion.



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"Regression" Quotes from Famous Books



... all organic instincts are conservative, historically acquired, and directed towards regression, towards reinstatement of something earlier, we are obliged to place all the results of organic development to the credit of external, disturbing, and distracting influences. The rudimentary creature would from its very beginning not have wanted ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana


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