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INCONTINENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incontinency mean? 

INCONTINENCY (noun)
  The noun INCONTINENCY has 1 sense:

1. involuntary urination or defecationplay

  Familiarity information: INCONTINENCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INCONTINENCY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Involuntary urination or defecation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

incontinence; incontinency

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)


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