regression
Nouns
- (n) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation,
- (n) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- (n) 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 toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression,
- (n) returning to a former state regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion,