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INCONTINENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involuntary urination or defecation
Synonyms:
incontinence; incontinency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("incontinency" is a kind of...):
elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incontinency"):
enuresis; urinary incontinence (inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination)
Derivation:
incontinent (not having control over urination and defecation)
