REGRESSION Definitions, Synonyms, and Scrabble Information

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regression - an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
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Scrabble and Words with Friends

REGRESSION is a valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
REGRESSION is a valid Words with Friends word worth 13 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
REGRESSION is a 10 letter word containing the letters e, e, g, i, n, o, r, r, s, s.

Definitions

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

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

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Words that sound like 'regression'

recursion, regression, resorcin, rigorism

Derivations

regress

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