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Incontinence

Incontinence Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Incontinence? [n] indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures [n] involuntary urination or defecation Synonyms \| Synonyms for Incontinence: dissoluteness \| incontinency \| self-gratification Related Terms \| Find terms related to Incontinence: abandon \| abandonment \| acquisitiveness \| avarice \| avariciousness \| avidity \| avidness \| boundlessness \| carpe diem \| conspicuous consumption \| covetousness \| crapulence \| crapulency \| crapulousness \| cupidity \| dissipation \| drunkenness \| egregiousness \| enormousness \| exaggeration \| excess \| excessiveness \| exorbitance \| exorbitancy \| extravagance \| extravagancy \| extreme \| extremes \| extremism \| extremity \| fabulousness \| frenzy of desire \| fury of desire \| giantism \| gigantism \| gluttony \| grasping \| graspingness \| greed \| greediness \| hoggishness \| hyperbole \| hypertrophy \| immoderacy \| immoderateness \| immoderation \| indiscipline \| indulgence \| inordinacy \| inordinance \| inordinate desire \| inordinateness \| insatiability \| insatiable desire \| intemperance \| intemperateness \| irrepressibility \| itching palm \| lavishness \| laxness \| leaking purse \| licentiousness \| loose purse strings \| lust \| monstrousness \| nimiety \| noncoercion \| nonintimidation \| outrageousness \| overdevelopment \| overdoing \| overgenerosity \| overgenerousness \| overgreatness \| overgreediness \| overgrowth \| overindulgence \| overlargeness \| overliberality \| overmuch \| overmuchness \| permissiveness \| piggishness \| pound-foolishness \| prodigality \| profligacy \| profuseness \| profusion \| radicalism \| rapaciousness \| rapacity \| ravenousness \| reckless expenditure \| reckless spending \| riotousness \| self-indulgence \| sordidness \| squandering \| squandermania \| swinishness \| too much \| too-muchness \| unconscionableness \| unconstraint \| uncontinence \| uncontrol \| undueness \| uninhibitedness \| unreasonableness \| unreserve \| unrestrainedness \| unrestraint \| unruliness \| unstrictness \| voraciousness \| voracity \| wantonness \| waste \| wastefulness \| wildness \| wolfishness See Also \| elimination \| enuresis \| evacuation \| excreting \| excretion \| indiscipline \| rakishness \| undiscipline \| urinary incontinence \| voiding Incontinence In Webster's Dictionary \Incon"tinence\, Incontinency \Incon"tinen*cy\, n. [L. incontinentia: cf. F. incontinence.] 1. Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness. That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. --1 Cor. vii. 5. From the rash hand of bold incontinence. --Milton. 2. (Med.) The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine.

Incontinence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Incontinence?

[n] indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
[n] involuntary urination or defecation

Synonyms | Synonyms for Incontinence: dissoluteness | incontinency | self-gratification

Incontinence In Webster's Dictionary

\In*con"ti*nence\, Incontinency \In*con"ti*nen*cy\,
n. [L. incontinentia: cf. F. incontinence.]
1. Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or
   restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want
   of continence; failure to restrain the passions or
   appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness.

         That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. --1
                                               Cor. vii. 5.

         From the rash hand of bold incontinence. --Milton.

2. (Med.) The inability of any of the animal organs to
   restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges
   are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine.

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