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verb-intransitive. To go back; move backward.

verb-intransitive. To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.

verb-intransitive. To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.

v. Psychology To induce a state of regression in.

n. The act of going or coming back; return.

n. Passage back; reentry.

n. The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause.

n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.

n. The power or liberty of passing back.

v. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.

v. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. “The progress or regress of man”.

n. The power or liberty of passing back.

verb-intransitive. To go back; to return to a former place or state.

To go back; return to a former place or state.

In astronomy, to move from east toward west.

n. Passage back; return.

n. The power or liberty of returning or passing back.

n. In Scots law, reëntry.

n. In canon law. See access, 7.

n. In logic, the passage in thought from effect to cause.

n. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence

v. go back to a statistical means

v. go back to bad behavior

n. returning to a former state

v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition

v. go back to a previous state

"The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself."

progress    proceed   

regressed    regresses    regressing   

logical thinking    reasoning    abstract thought    change    retrovert    revert    turn back    return    reversal   

demonstrative regress   

regression    regressive   

regressed    regressing    infinite regress   

return    recession    recede    backslide   

Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness