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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 defecation
Familiarity information: INCONTINENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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