incontinence
the inability to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
Philosophy: Older Use. a lack of self-control, especially of sexual desire.
Rare. emotional incontinence.
Origin of incontinence
1Words Nearby incontinence
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How to use incontinence in a sentence
Then, he confessed he feared his incontinence, caused by an untreated pinched nerve in his back, would keep him from finding love.
The Party Monster Lives For the Applause: Michael Alig’s Second Act | Caitlin Dickson | February 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSitting at my computer desk I suddenly thought I understood what incontinence felt like.
No Sex For Six Weeks After Giving Birth? It’s Too Long! | Aurora Snow | December 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTincontinence, impotence, insomnia, and depression are terrible whether or not they're medicalized.
incontinence means transgressing the ordinary standards in respect of pleasure and pain.
The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. | VariousBut Guy's great fault, in this prudent world, was his absolute incontinence of money.
The Caxtons, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Where once gentility abode was now but a rancid and rude incontinence.
Roads of Destiny | O. Henryincontinence is general, and the number of illegitimate children greater than those born in wedlock.
Peru in the Guano Age | Alexander James DuffieldThese three beasts typify the division of sins into those of incontinence, of violence, and of fraud.
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