Regression vs. Repression

Regressionnoun

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

Regressionnoun

An action of travelling back in time.

Regressionnoun

(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

Regressionnoun

(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

Regressionnoun

(statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

Regressionnoun

(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.

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(medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

Regressionnoun

The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.

Regressionnoun

an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

Regressionnoun

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)

Regressionnoun

returning to a former state

Repressionnoun

The act of repressing; state of being repressed.

Repressionnoun

The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.

Repressionnoun

The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

Repressionnoun

That which represses; check; restraint.

Repressionnoun

a state of forcible subjugation;

Repressionnoun

(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

Repressionnoun

the act of repressing; control by holding down;