Another word for regression

A return to a former, usually worse condition

• retrogradation

  1. Decline, degradation
  2. Motion in a retrograde manner
  3. (Chemistry) A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale.

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  1. Decline, degradation
  2. Motion in a retrograde manner
  3. (Chemistry) A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale.

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• retrogression

  1. A deterioration or decline to a previous state
  2. (Biology) A return to a less complex condition
  3. (Biol.) A return to a lower, less complex stage or state; degeneration

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  1. A deterioration or decline to a previous state
  2. (Biology) A return to a less complex condition
  3. (Biol.) A return to a lower, less complex stage or state; degeneration

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• reversion

  1. The return, or reappearance, of characteristics present in early ancestral generations but not in those that have intervened
  2. (Biol.) A return to a former or primitive type; atavism
  3. The return of an estate to the grantor or the grantor's heirs by operation of law after the period of a grant is over

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  1. The return, or reappearance, of characteristics present in early ancestral generations but not in those that have intervened
  2. (Biol.) A return to a former or primitive type; atavism
  3. The return of an estate to the grantor or the grantor's heirs by operation of law after the period of a grant is over

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