retrogression (n.)
- about-face
- advance
- ascending
- ascent
- backflowing
- backing
- backsliding
- career
- climbing
- comedown
- course
- current
- debasement
- decadence
- decadency
- declension
- declination
- decline
- deformation
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- degradation
- demotion
- depravation
- depreciation
- derogation
- descent
- deterioration
- devolution
- disenchantment
- downturn
- drift
- driftage
- drop
- dying
- ebb
- ebbing
- fading
- failing
- failure
- fall
- flight
- flip-flop
- flow
- flux
- involution
- lapse
- mounting
- onrush
- passage
- progress
- reaction
- recession
- recidivism
- reclamation
- reentry
- reflux
- regress
- regression
- rehabilitation
- reinstatement
- relapse
- restitution
- restoration
- retroflexion
- retroversion
- return
- reversal
- reverse
- reversion
- reverting
- revulsion
- rising
- rollback
- run
- rush
- set
- setback
- sinking
- slippage
- slump
- soaring
- stream
- subsiding
- throwback
- trend
- turn
- turnabout
- wane