Retrogression

Quick meaning: Retrogression is a noun meaning A deterioration or decline to a previous state.

Meaning

A deterioration or decline to a previous state.

More Meanings

1. (biology) A return to a less complex condition.

Example Sentences

History and experience, the enshriners of the past, and investigation, the discoverer of the present and preparer for the future, will prevent retrogression.

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.

Word Forms

• retrogressions

Synonyms for retrogression

Depending on context, synonyms include regress, regression, reversion, degeneration, retroversion.

Antonyms for retrogression

Common opposites include progression.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retroversion, regress, regression, reversion, degeneration, retrogressive.

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