- arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regression - an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
--1 is a kind of abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
- regression - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
--2 is a kind of defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
- regression, 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)
--3 is a kind of statistical method, statistical procedure
--3 is a part of regression analysis
--3 has particulars: linear regression, rectilinear regression; curvilinear regression- regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion - returning to a former state
--4 is a kind of reversal
Derived form: verb regress2 - regression, 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)