Complete Definition of "incontinence"

English

Noun
incontinence

  1. The quality of being incontinent; want of continence or holding in; unrestrained movement or flow; superabundant outpour.
  2. Lack of due restraint of the appetites or passions; intemperance in sexual intercourse; unchasteness; licentiousness.
  3. medicine The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation: as, incontinence of urine.

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Danish: t|da|inkontinens|c
Dutch: incontinentie
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References
R:Century 1911

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