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regression
noun
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psychiatry A defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state.
Dutch: regressie
Polish: regres, regresja
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Returning to a former state.
synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion.
Roget 145:
reversion,
return;
revulsion.
turning point,
turn of the tide;
status quo ante bellum;
calm before a storm.
alternation
etc.
(periodicity)
138;
inversion
etc.
219;
recoil
etc.
277;
retreat,
regression,
retrogression
etc.
283;
restoration
etc.
660;
relapse,
recidivism
etc.
661;
atavism;
vicinism†;
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Roget 283:
regress,
regression;
retrocession†,
retrogression,
retrograduation†,
retroaction;
reculade†;
retreat,
withdrawal,
retirement,
remigration†;
recession
etc.
(motion from)
287;
recess;
crab-like motion.
refluence†,
reflux;
backwater,
regurgitation,
ebb,
return;
resilience reflection,
reflexion [Brit.]
(recoil)
277;
flip-flop,
volte-face [Fr.].
counter motion,
retrograde motion,
backward movement,
motion in reverse,
counter movement,
counter march;
veering,
tergiversation,
recidivation†,
backsliding,
fall;
deterioration
etc.
659;
recidivism,
recidivity†.
reversal,
relapse,
turning point
etc.
(reversion)
145.
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Dutch: teruggang, terugkeer
Polish: retrogresja
Moby thesaurus: Brownian movement, Freudian fixation, about-face, advance, angular motion, arrested development, ascending, ascent, atavism, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, career, climbing, comedown, course, current, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descending, descent, deterioration, devolution, disenchantment, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward motion, downward trend, drift, driftage, drop, dying, ebb, ebbing, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling back, falling-off, father fixation, fixation, flight, flip-flop, flow, flux, forward motion, infantile fixation, involution, lapse, libido fixation, loss of tone, mother fixation, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, parent fixation, passage, plunging, pregenital fixation, progress, radial motion, random motion, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, recrudescence, recurrence, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, renewal, restitution, restoration, retreat to immaturity, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rising, run, rush, set, setback, sideward motion, sinking, slippage, slipping back, slump, soaring, sternway, stream, subsiding, throwback, traject, trajet, trend, turn, turnabout, upward motion, wane ... show more.
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