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Definition of incontinence in English: incontinencenoun ɪnˈkɒntɪnəns mass noun1Lack of voluntary control over urination or defecation. causes of urinary incontinence Example sentencesExamples - I need to buy incontinence pads.
- Incontinence can result in bladder infections.
- About 1 out of 3 women has incontinence.
- Whatever the cause, fecal incontinence can be a source of embarrassment.
- An estimated 40 million women - and perhaps half as many men - of all ages suffer from incontinence.
- This affects elderly people and such people who are incontinence sufferers.
- Pelvic floor muscles help prevent urinary incontinence.
- People with urge incontinence often go to the toilet a lot during the night.
- Behavioral therapy may reduce the mean number of incontinence episodes by as much as 50 percent.
- Surgery can be used to treat moderate to severe stress incontinence.
2Lack of self-restraint. the emotional incontinence of modern society Example sentencesExamples - He was a flawed personality who damaged himself and his family by his sexual incontinence.
- His speech coincided with a report on Ireland's fiscal incontinence.
- Such incontinence, driven by public spending rising faster than the growth in the economy, cannot be controlled for long while keeping taxes down.
- The report is scathing about the financial incontinence of bankers and consumers but complacent about regulatory failures.
- Her human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture.
- It should be noticed that all three of these deficiencies - continence, incontinence, vice - involve some lack of internal harmony.
- The newspaper grumbled that doctors, unions, and hospital administrators needed to recognize that "excellence of service is not dependent on utter incontinence in the spending of health dollars."
- Their respect for the captain operated as a check to the incontinence of their passions.
- I didn't stutter or display more than my normal tendencies to verbal incontinence, so I'm about as happy as I could reasonably be expected to be.
- Aristotle investigates character traits - continence and incontinence - that are not as blameworthy as the vices but not as praiseworthy as the virtues.
Definition of incontinence in US English: incontinencenouninˈkänt(ə)nəns 1Lack of voluntary control over urination or defecation. causes of urinary incontinence Example sentencesExamples - This affects elderly people and such people who are incontinence sufferers.
- About 1 out of 3 women has incontinence.
- People with urge incontinence often go to the toilet a lot during the night.
- Pelvic floor muscles help prevent urinary incontinence.
- An estimated 40 million women - and perhaps half as many men - of all ages suffer from incontinence.
- Behavioral therapy may reduce the mean number of incontinence episodes by as much as 50 percent.
- Incontinence can result in bladder infections.
- Whatever the cause, fecal incontinence can be a source of embarrassment.
- I need to buy incontinence pads.
- Surgery can be used to treat moderate to severe stress incontinence.
2Lack of self-restraint. the emotional incontinence of modern society Example sentencesExamples - He was a flawed personality who damaged himself and his family by his sexual incontinence.
- I didn't stutter or display more than my normal tendencies to verbal incontinence, so I'm about as happy as I could reasonably be expected to be.
- Such incontinence, driven by public spending rising faster than the growth in the economy, cannot be controlled for long while keeping taxes down.
- Her human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture.
- The newspaper grumbled that doctors, unions, and hospital administrators needed to recognize that "excellence of service is not dependent on utter incontinence in the spending of health dollars."
- Aristotle investigates character traits - continence and incontinence - that are not as blameworthy as the vices but not as praiseworthy as the virtues.
- Their respect for the captain operated as a check to the incontinence of their passions.
- His speech coincided with a report on Ireland's fiscal incontinence.
- The report is scathing about the financial incontinence of bankers and consumers but complacent about regulatory failures.
- It should be noticed that all three of these deficiencies - continence, incontinence, vice - involve some lack of internal harmony.
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