Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being incontinent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being incontinent; want of continence or holding in; unrestrained movement or flow; superabundant outpour.
- noun Specifically
- noun Lack of due restraint of the appetites or passions; intemperance in sexual intercourse; unchasteness; licentiousness.
- noun In medicine, the inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation: as, incontinence of urine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; lack of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness.
- noun (Med.) The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, especially urination, or defecation, so that the discharges are involuntary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated Lack of
self-restraint , an inability to control oneself;unchastity . - noun medicine The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun involuntary urination or defecation
- noun indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
Etymologies
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Examples
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We have examples of such desires in a morbid or diseased form, species of mania; but here again the term incontinence is only applied by analogy.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909
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Fortunately, urinary incontinence is a very treatable condition, whereby, when present, obesity treatment can have a significant benefit.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity Can Make you Pee Your Pants 2009
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As blogged before, urinary incontinence is a common problem in women with excess weight, which often responds well to weight loss.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity Network Joins Incontinence Coalition 2009
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But I was buoyed by the knowledge that she had done the same to all 6 of us kids and none of us seemed to be suffering any long-term incontinence or "feelings of failure, inadequacy or general stress" around bathroom visits.
Kirsten Dirksen: Who Decides When to Potty Train: You, Baby or Big Diapers? 2009
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Then you will have my respect but only after Aunt Berta's incontinence is history.
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Then you will have my respect but only after Aunt Berta's incontinence is history.
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Then you will have my respect but only after Aunt Berta's incontinence is history.
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Then you will have my respect but only after Aunt Berta's incontinence is history.
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Then you will have my respect but only after Aunt Berta's incontinence is history.
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Then you will have my respect but only after Aunt Berta's incontinence is history.
brtom commented on the word incontinence
Father Conmee thought of that tyrannous incontinence, needed however for men's race on earth, and of the ways of God which were not our ways.
Joyce, Ulysses, 10
January 7, 2007