Difference between Backsliding and Relapsing

What is the difference between Backsliding and Relapsing?

Backsliding as a verb is to regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state. while Relapsing as a verb is to fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.

Backsliding

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: sliding back

Relapsing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.

We hope you now know whether to use Backsliding or Relapsing in your sentence.

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