Synonyms for progression
prəˈgrɛʃ ənpro·gres·sion

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1. progressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   sequence

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1. progression

   Progress (Latin pro, forward, gradior, go) is a moving onward or forward, whether in space or in the mental or moral realm, and may be either mechanical, individual, or social. Attainment, development, and proficiency are more absolute than the other words of the group, denoting some point of advantage or of comparative perfection reached by forward or onward movement; we speak of attainments in virtue or scholarship, proficiency in music or languages, the development of new powers or organs; proficiency includes the idea of skill. Advance may denote either a forward movement or the point gained by forward movement, but always relatively with reference to the point from which the movement started; as, this is a great advance. Advance admits the possibility of retreat; progress (Latin progredi, to walk forward) is steady and constant forward movement, admitting of pause, but not of retreat; advance suggests more clearly a point to be reached, while progress lays the emphasis upon the forward movement; we may speak of slow or rapid progress, but more naturally of swift advance. Progress is more frequently used of abstractions; as, the progress of ideas; progression fixes the attention chiefly upon the act of moving forward. In a thing good in itself all advance or progress is improvement; there is a growing tendency to restrict the words to this favorable sense, using increase indifferently of good or evil; one may say without limitation, "I am an advocate of progress."

   Synonyms:
   advance, advancement, attainment, development, growth, improvement, increase, proficiency, progress

   Antonyms:
   check, decline, delay, falling back, falling off, relapse, retrogression, stay, stop, stoppage

   Preposition:
   The progress of truth; progress in virtue; toward perfection; from a lower to a higher state.

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1. progression

   Synonyms:
   series, gradation, rate

   Antonyms:
   inversion, diminution

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1. progression, patterned advancenoun

   a series with a definite pattern of advance

   Synonyms:
   progress, advancement, procession, advance, onward motion, patterned advance, forward motion

2. progress, progression, advancenoun

   a movement forward

   "he listened for the progress of the troops"

   Synonyms:
   progress, advancement, procession, advance, feeler, improvement, betterment, onward motion, approach, cash advance, overture, patterned advance, rise, forward motion

3. progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motionnoun

   the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

   Synonyms:
   rise, forward motion, emanation, cash advance, progress, feeler, patterned advance, improvement, advancement, approach, furtherance, advance, procession, betterment, overture, onward motion, promotion

Matched Categories

1. • Change Of Location
   • Series

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1. progressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   advancement, advance, progress

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1. List of paraphrases for "progression":

   progress, gradation, advancement, evolution, increase, spread, growth, advance

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How to use progression in a sentence?

1. Dave Mirra:

   It was never going to be that fun for me to go on riding on a plateau level and not keep progressing, but by the same token I got to a point where I really couldn't take getting injured anymore in the name of progression, it put me in a stalemate. I probably could have milked BMX for a lot longer if I'd really wanted to, but that's not my style.

2. Todd Berry:

   We’re fearful if we go too far in one direction we'd have a lot of injuries in that first game, there is a process, a teaching progression to get players to learn how to control their bodies.

3. Matthew Kacsmaryk:

   But through that progression or regression, I think you can see five areas where there will be a clash of absolutes between the traditional Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage and the revisionist, redefined vision of marriage that you saw in last term’s Supreme Court opinions.

4. Michael Phelps:

   We haven't really seen much progression in this event over the last couple of years, i came into tonight wanting to do 1:57 and I did it. I'm not sure what's going to happen over the next year, but I'm just happy to do that( 1:57) because I think it's going to help me a lot in the 100.

5. Bharat Pankhania:

   If one were to draw a graph of vaccine coverage versus danger, it would be a linear progression, the greater the vaccine coverage, the less the dangers and the other way around, of course, we want to get to 90 % coverage, it is a tall order globally. If we get to 70 % and stay there, there will be many sporadic outbreaks which may overwhelm health services. Worse, it will create more chances for the virus to mutate and variants of concern to emerge.