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Incontinence vs Dribbling - What's the difference?

incontinence | dribbling |

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

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incontinence

English

Noun

  • (dated) Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 119:
    • 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.
  • (medicine) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).

    • Derived terms

    * incontinence diaper * incontinence pad

    Synonyms

    * akrasia

    References

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    dribbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of liquid that is dribbled.
  • * 1850 , The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London
    • 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.
  • * 1866 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
    • From the mouth you early observe a dribbling of saliva of a sticky nature and mixed with air, and of a disagreeable fetor