regression




regression - noun

  • an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
  • (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
  • 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)
  • returning to a former state
  • regression - thesaurus

    fixation   regress   retrogression   retroversion   reversion