Definitions
returning to a former state
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion.
Used in a sentence
“Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.”
“I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.”
“A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Return backward”10 letters
02“Backward slide”10 letters
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