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Regressive vs Remission - What's the difference?

regressive | remission |

As an adjective regressive

is .

As a noun remission is

remission.

regressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That tends to return, revert or regress.
  • (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
  • Antonyms

    * progressive

    remission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
  • A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
  • (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
  • Her cancer was in remission .
  • (legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
  • See also

    * (medicine) relapse * reemission

    Anagrams

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