regression   (Sound)

The noun regression has 4 senses

• arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regression -- (an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely)


• regression -- ((psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state)


• regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression -- (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))


• regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion -- (returning to a former state)