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retrogression en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
   • Suns spring into being, and then their height of power being reached, the process of retrogression begins, and after aeons they become dead masses of matter, awaiting another impulse which starts again their inner energies into activity and a new solar life cycle is begun. 1908, The Three Initiates, The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2011:
   • History and experience, the enshriners of the past, and investigation, the discoverer of the present and preparer for the future, will prevent retrogression. 1849, Hogg's Weekly Instructor, page 388:
2. (countable, uncountable) A return to a less complex condition.

Forms

Antonyms

progression

Deriveds

retrogressionism · retrogressionist · retrogressional

Relateds

retrogressive

Synonyms

regress

Translations (18)

ru упа́док (decline) · ga aischéimniú (decline) · ga aisghabháil (biology: a return to a less complex condition) · de Rückschritt (decline) · cmn 退步 (decline) · ga aisghabháil (decline) · ja 逆行 (decline) · ne प्रतिगमन (decline) · fr rétrogression (decline) · fi taantuminen (decline) · ga aisiompú (decline) · ru регре́сс (decline) · ga céim siar (decline) · ja 退化 (decline) · cmn 退化 (decline) · cmn 倒退 (decline) · cs zánik (decline) · io retroiro (decline)