Regression vs. Digression
Difference Between Regression and Digression
Regressionnoun
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
Digressionnoun
An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.Regressionnoun
An action of travelling back in time.
Digressionnoun
The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
make digression... by way of digression...Regressionnoun
(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
Digressionnoun
(obsolete) A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule.
Regressionnoun
(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
Digressionnoun
A deviation, an act of straying from a path.
Regressionnoun
(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).
Digressionnoun
An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path.
Regressionnoun
(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
Digressionnoun
a message that departs from the main subject
Regressionnoun
(medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
Digressionnoun
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern);
a diversion from the main highwaya digression into irrelevant detailsa deflection from his goalRegressionnoun
an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
Digressionnoun
wandering from the main path of a journey
Regressionnoun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
Regressionnoun
the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
Regressionnoun
returning to a former state
