'Incontinence' definitions:
Definition of 'incontinence'
From: WordNet
noun
Involuntary urination or defecation [syn: incontinence, incontinency]
noun
Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures [syn: dissoluteness, incontinence, self-gratification]
Definition of 'Incontinence'
From: GCIDE
- Incontinence \In*con"ti*nence\, Incontinency \In*con"ti*nen*cy\, n. [L. incontinentia: cf. F. incontinence.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. --1 Cor. vii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- From the rash hand of bold incontinence. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, especially urination, or defecation, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incontinence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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