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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



... shrugged. Mysticism was not even interesting to him, ordinarily. Still, though a behaviorist, he upheld certain instinctual motivation theories. And, though reluctantly, he granted Freud contributory significance. He could be an atavist, a victim of unconscious regression. Or a prey of some insidious influence, some phenomena a rather childish science had not yet become aware of. But it was of no importance. He was happier now than he had ever been. He felt free—young and new. Life seemed ...
— Strange Alliance • Bryce Walton
... I always leave a theatre with a vague depression of spirits; everyday humdrum life chills me when I come out to the street. Reality is always difficult to face. The great popularity of the cinema is due to this human desire for make-believe. Cinema-going is a regression to the infantile; we return to the childish phase where the wish was all powerful. In the cinema the villain is always worsted; the wronged heroine always falls into the hero's arms at the end. Life for most of ...
— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill
... girls shown marked increase of all memory forms about the twelfth year. This relative increase is exceeded only in the fourteenth year for visual concepts. The thirteenth year shows the greatest increase for sounds and a remarkable regression for objects in passing from the lowest to the next ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall


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