| EGRESSION | • egression n. The act of going; egress. • EGRESSION n. the act of going out. |
| AGGRESSION | • aggression n. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion. • aggression n. The practice or habit of launching attacks. • aggression n. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions. |
| DEGRESSION | • degression n. (Obsolete) Descent, the act of descending. • degression n. (Economics) Degressive taxation, a system of progressive decreases in a rate of taxation (As tariffs… • degression n. (Publishing) Degressive description, a system of varying descriptions of a book in accordance to its… |
| DIGRESSION | • digression n. An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing. • digression n. (Generally uncountable) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly… • digression n. (Obsolete) A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule. |
| INGRESSION | • ingression n. The act or process of entering or intruding. • ingression n. (Metaphysics) The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality. • ingression n. (Biology) The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation. |
| REGRESSION | • regression n. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state. • regression n. An action of travelling mentally back in time. • regression n. (Psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to… |
| PROGRESSION | • progression n. The act of moving from one thing to another. • progression n. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward. • progression n. (Mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant. |
| INTROGRESSION | • introgression n. (Genetics) The movement of a gene from one species to another. • INTROGRESSION n. the modification of species by the backcrossing of the hybrids with the parent species. |
| NONAGGRESSION | • nonaggression n. An absence of aggression. • NONAGGRESSION n. lack of aggression. |
| RETROGRESSION | • retrogression n. A deterioration or decline to a previous state. • retrogression n. (Biology) A return to a less complex condition. • RETROGRESSION n. the act of retrogressing. |
| TRANSGRESSION | • transgression n. A violation of a law, duty or commandment. • transgression n. An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries. • transgression n. (Geology) A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata. |
| ANTIAGGRESSION | • antiaggression n. The lack or absence of aggression. • ANTIAGGRESSION adj. opposed to aggression. |
| MICROAGGRESSION | • microaggression n. (Sociology, chiefly US) Any small-scale verbal or physical interaction between those of different races… • MICROAGGRESSION n. indirect or subtle actions or statements regarded as denigrating a minority group. |