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Regression vs Degeneration - What's the difference?

regression | degeneration |

As nouns the difference between regression and degeneration

is that regression is an action of regressing, a return to a previous state while degeneration is the process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.

regression

English

(wikipedia regression)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
  • * 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
    • Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
  • (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
  • (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
  • (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).
  • (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.

    • Antonyms

    * progression

    Derived terms

    * linear regression * regression to the mean * regression testing (computing) * regression therapy (psychotherapy)

    degeneration

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
  • * 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible ,
    • The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
  • (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
    • fatty degeneration of the liver
  • (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  • (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • cockle, aracus, and other degenerations

    Synonyms

    * (process or state of growing worse) decline, degradation, debasement,degeneracy, deterioration

    Related terms

    * degenerate