incontinency Definition

incontinent
adj

1. Unable to control one's bowels or bladder or both.
2. formal or old use
Unable to control oneself, especially one's sexual desires.
Thesaurus: lecherous, profligate, unbridled, promiscuous, debauched, dissipated, ungovernable, dissolute, lascivious, lewd, licentious, wanton; Antonym: restrained, chaste, controlled, checked.
3. medicine.
Lacking control over it.
Form: incontinent of something (usually)

Derivative: incontinence
noun

Etymology: 14c: French, from Latin incontinens; see continent².