Incontinence vs Dribbling - What's the difference?
incontinence | dribbling |
(dated) Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 119:
(medicine) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).
An amount of liquid that is dribbled.
* 1850 , The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London
* 1866 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
As nouns the difference between incontinence and dribbling
is that incontinence is (dated) lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity while dribbling is an amount of liquid that is dribbled.As a verb dribbling is
.incontinence
English
Noun
- Allworthy was sufficiently offended by this transgression of Jones; for notwithstanding the assertions of Mr Western, it is certain this worthy man had never indulged himself in any loose pleasures with women, and greatly condemned the vice of incontinence in others.
Derived terms
* incontinence diaper * incontinence padSynonyms
* akrasiaReferences
*dribbling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber, receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
- From the mouth you early observe a dribbling of saliva of a sticky nature and mixed with air, and of a disagreeable fetor