Incontinence

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  • noun. The quality or state of being incontinent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, especially urination, or defecation, so that the discharges are involuntary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity.
  • noun. The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. involuntary urination or defecation
  • noun. indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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