Regression

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NOUN

arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation

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

simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression

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)

regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion

returning to a former state

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