That tends to return, revert or regress. / (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the taxed amount increases.

The quality of being regressive.

in a regressive manner

simple past tense and past participle of regress

That has been subject to regression

plural of regression

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state. / An action of travelling mentally back in time.

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. / The power or liberty of passing back. / In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

(intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. / (intransitive, astronomy) To move from east to west. / (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

One who regresses.