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Regression

noun

An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely. Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation.

(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). Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression.

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

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