Usually means: Tax burden increases as income decreases.
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  1. regressivity: Merriam-Webster
  2. regressivity: Collins English Dictionary
  3. regressivity: Wordnik
  4. regressivity: Wiktionary
  5. regressivity: Dictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. regressivity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (regressivity)

▸ noun:  The condition of being regressive.

Similar:
recessiveness, autoregressivity, retrogradeness, retroactivity, progressivity, retroactiveness, retardedness, recessivity, repressibility, regeneracy, more...

Opposite:
progressivity, advancement, development

Types:
proportional, progressive, regressive, more...

Adjectives:
alleged, overall, potential, relative, greater, slight, inherent, fiscal, end, extreme, apparent

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Similar:
recessiveness, autoregressivity, retrogradeness, retroactivity, progressivity, retroactiveness, retardedness, recessivity, repressibility, regeneracy, more...

Opposite:
progressivity, advancement, development

Types:
proportional, progressive, regressive, more...

Adjectives:
alleged, overall, potential, relative, greater, slight, inherent, fiscal, end, extreme, apparent



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