Difference between Regress and Regression

Regress

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. The power or liberty of passing back.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

Regression

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

Example sentence: But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.