Digression vs Regression - What's the difference?
digression | regression |
A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
* 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
(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.
As nouns the difference between digression and regression
is that digression is a departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern while regression is an action of regressing, a return to a previous state.digression
English
(wikipedia digression)Noun
(en noun)- The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.
See also
* detour ----regression
English
(wikipedia regression)Noun
(en noun)- Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.