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regressionist

noun

Etymology

From regression + -ist.

  1. learned borrowing from regressio
  2. suffixed as regressionist — “regression + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who promotes or follows regressionism.

    • This politician is a regressionist who disregards what people care about now.

  2. One who travels back in time.

    • She, too, was a past-life regressionist. I asked, “Do you remember if you had a lifetime in connection with Nazi Germany?” She replied, “Oh, I thought you knew. I was a prison warden at Auschwitz. […]

  3. One who carries out regressions, inducing a patient to act out behaviour typical of an…

    One who carries out regressions, inducing a patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA