Egressive vs Regressive - What's the difference?
egressive | regressive |
Going or directed outward.
(phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
(geology) descriptive of a place or channel through which something such as water or lava leaves an area.
(phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
That tends to return, revert or regress.
(of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
As adjectives the difference between egressive and regressive
is that egressive is going or directed outward while regressive is that tends to return, revert or regress.As a noun egressive
is a speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.egressive
English
(wikipedia egressive)Adjective
(head)- This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake .