regressions

Noun

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
• 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)
• returning to a former state
• plural of regression

Synonyms

arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regress, regression, regression toward the mean, retrogression, retroversion, reversion, simple regression, statistical regression