Compliance vs Regret - What's the difference?
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An act of complying.
(uncountable) The state of being compliant.
(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
(uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with
To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
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(more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
* Macaulay
* Clarendon
* Washington Irving
(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
As nouns the difference between compliance and regret
is that compliance is an act of complying while regret is emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.As a verb regret is
to feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.compliance
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Antonyms
*(act of complying) violationregret
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(wikipedia regret)Verb
(regrett)Usage notes
This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the (-ing) form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. SeeDerived terms
* regretterNoun
- What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe ?
- Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
- From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.