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regressionist en · NOUN

Etymology

From regression + -ist.

Meanings

1. One who promotes or follows regressionism.
   • This politician is a regressionist who disregards what people care about now.
2. One who travels back in time.
   • She, too, was a past-life regressionist. I asked, “Do you remember if you had a lifetime in connection with Nazi Germany?” She replied, “Oh, I thought you knew. I was a prison warden at Auschwitz. […] 2010, Denise Linn, Past Lives, Present Miracles:
3. (qualifier:psychotherapy) One who carries out regressions, inducing a patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

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