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Noun: retrogression  ,re-tru'gre-shun
  1. A return to an earlier state
    "The economy's retrogression worried investors";
    - regression, regress, reversion, retroversion
     
  2. Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
    "The retrogression of the species was observed over several generations";
    - degeneration

Derived forms: retrogressions

Type of: reversal, shift, transformation, transmutation

Encyclopedia: Retrogression