| 单词 | emotional incontinence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasemotional incontinence emotional incontinence n. originally Medicine the excessive or inappropriate display of emotion, or inability to control the emotions, esp. as a symptom of psychiatric or neurological disorders. ΚΠ 1875 Lancet 6 Feb. 197/1 The only indication of mental impairment that was observed, beyond the drowsiness..was emotional incontinence. 1922 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 580 The style..is of such emotional incontinence that some of the later chapters fairly bristle with exclamation points. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 810/1 8 of the patients had had sharply defined episodes of cerebral dysfunction or other clinical features (e.g. epileptic fits, emotional incontinence, etc.). 2005 K. Harrison Starter Marriage 160 Emotional incontinence would, for him, probably be more humiliating than the kind below the waist. < as lemmas |
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