BACKSLIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backsliding mean? 

• BACKSLIDING (noun)
  The noun BACKSLIDING has 1 sense:

1. a failure to maintain a higher state

  Familiarity information: BACKSLIDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKSLIDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A failure to maintain a higher state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

backsliding; lapse; lapsing; relapse; relapsing; reversion; reverting

Hypernyms ("backsliding" is a kind of...):

failure (an act that fails)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backsliding"):

recidivism (habitual relapse into crime)