Synonyms of the word

regression

• n. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
• n. An action of travelling back in time.
• n. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act…
• n. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a…
• n. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable…
• n. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
• n. (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

abnormalcy

• n. Alternative form of abnormality.

abnormality

• n. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
• n. Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.

defence

• n. The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
• n. Something used to oppose attack(s).
• n. An argument in support or justification of something.
• n. (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with…
• n. (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with…
• n. Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
• n. (obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.

defense

• n. The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
• n. Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
• n. An argument in support or justification of something.
• n. (government, military) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
• n. (obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

fixation

• n. The act of fixing.
• n. The state of being fixed or fixated.
• n. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition;…
• n. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
• n. In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
• n. A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
• n. (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby…
• n. (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular…

regress

• n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
• n. The power or liberty of passing back.
• n. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
• v. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
• v. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

retrogression

• n. A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
• n. (biology) A return to a less complex condition.

retroversion

• n. (medicine) The state or condition of being retroverted.

reversal

• n. The state of being reversed.
• n. An instance of reversing.
• n. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
• adj. Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

reversion

• n. The action of reverting something.
• n. The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal.
• n. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
• n. The action of turning something the reverse way.
• n. (law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
• n. (law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
• n. (law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
• n. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
• n. The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
• n. A sum payable on a person's death.