1the action of returning to a former or less developed state:the regress is a return to Puritan values [count noun]:a regress to the nursery
2 Philosophy a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself).
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1 [no object] return to a former or less developed state:they would not regress to pre-technological tribalism
return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis: [no object]:she claims to be able to regress to the Roman era [with object]:I regressed Sylvia to early childhood
2 [with object] Statistics calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable:a model in which C and Y are regressed on the same variables