| NOUN | state | regression, arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation | an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely |
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| process | regression | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile / infantile state | |
| cognition | 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) | |
| act | regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion | returning to a former state |
| Sounds | rahgreh'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely. | |
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| Synonyms | arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation | |
| Broader | abnormality, abnormalcy | An abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies |
| Spanish | regresión | |
| Catalan | regressió | |
| Meaning | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile / infantile state. | |
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| Category | psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine | The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
| Broader | defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence | (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires |
| Spanish | regresión | |
| Catalan | regressió | |
| Meaning | 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). | |
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| Synonyms | simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression | |
| Category | statistics | A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters |
| Part of | regression analysis | The use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another |
| Narrower | curvilinear regression | The relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic / quadratic or higher order) |
| linear regression, rectilinear regression | The relation between variables when the regression equation is linear | |
| Broader | statistical method, statistical procedure | A method of analyzing or representing statistical data |
| Meaning | Returning to a former state. | |
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| Synonyms | regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion | |
| Broader | reversal | A change from one state to the opposite state |
| Spanish | regresión, retroceso | |
| Catalan | regressió, retrocés | |
| Verbs | regress | go back to a previous state |
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