INCONTINENCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Involuntary urination or defecation

Synonyms:

incontinence; incontinency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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)