regress Definition
re·gress (rē′gres; for v. ri gres′)
noun
- a going or coming back
- the right or privilege of this
- backward movement; retrogression
Etymology: ME regresse < L regressus, pp. of regredi, to go back, return < re-, back + gradi, to go: see grade
intransitive verb
- to go back; return; move backward
- to undergo regression
regress Related Forms
regress Synonyms
regress Usage Examples
Object
- tumor: Also, there was little evidence of acute inflammatory infiltration in regressing tumors.
- client: One a client regressed into the past by Ormond and the other, her past-life alter ego, a 19th century psychic investigator.
- bit: Let me regress a little bit and let you know why this little bit of braggadocio was put on paper.
Converse of object
- avoid: And avoid the potential infinite regress of symbolic meaning by being fully grounded in the real world.
- have: If from another, then we have an unsatisfactory infinite regress of explanations.
- involve: At some point the system and the meta-system might be indistinguishable, although this may involve a virtually infinite regress.
- suggest: Furthermore, the way in which all this is done suggests a mental regress into " big brother " thinking.
Preposition: into
childhood: You go into one memory inside the body and the client is regressed into childhood - the voice changes, they feel small.
Adjective modifier
- infinite: Mutual belief is defined in terms of an infinite regress of nested beliefs.
- vicious: Try to devise a way of preserving his insights while avoiding the vicious regresses to which he can give rise.
- endless: The nightmare of the ' rational ' mind is attempting to evaluate the outcome of the outcome of the outcome in endless regress.
- temporal: The second, which he terms the kalām argument, holds that an infinite temporal regress is impossible because an actual infinite is impossible.
Modifying Another Word
- spontaneously: This becomes necessary only if the disease has reached a certain, well defined stage, as the milder forms often regress spontaneously.
- back: When the " cured " Norman Osborn suddenly regressed back to insanity, he came looking for Parker.
- then: And while many autistic children show signs of autism from birth, some seem to develop normally but then regress after their first year.
- not: When problems are found the test rig is extended to attempt to cover previous problems and make sure that we do not regress.
- hypnotically: There have also been many instances when hypnotically regressed subjects have provided information they could not have acquired normally.
Possessives
experimenter: In what ways are chains of failures of technical fixes historically connected to chains of attempts to escape the experimenter's regress?
Used with why or when
when: And I began a test suite, because experience had shown that Autoconf has a pronounced tendency to regress when we change it.
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