Progress

Progress is usually used in its value-laden form as can be seen from the following in the subjective progress section. However, there need not to be any value attached to the word progress. Or a mechanism can be progressive without implying improvement.

For example:

Doctor: i have good news! We have made progress with your cancer treatment!

patient: Oh dear GOD! It is disappearing?

doctor: No, we have made no progress with treating your cancer, however, we are progressing rapidly with the sequence of different treatments available for this type of cancer, and as such the treatment is progressing excellently. I might add that the cancer is progressing nicely also!

patient: I'm going to die?

doctor: yes, you are making progress. You have gone from fetus to child to teenager, to adult and soon you progress to that final state of being in horrible pains just screaming with the wish to die.

patient: oh my god!

subjective progress

Progress is when things should be getting better but progress in modern society usually means things get more expensive.

Progress can be technological or social.

• Progress is a Russian solid booster rocket landing on the US.