An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
INCONTINENCE
dissoluteness, incontinence, self-gratification
(noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
incontinence, incontinency
(noun) involuntary urination or defecation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
incontinence (countable and uncountable, plural incontinences)
(dated) Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity.
(urology) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).
Synonyms
• (lack of self-restraint): acrasia, incontinency
Antonyms
• continence
Source: Wiktionary
In*con"ti*nence, In*con"ti*nen*cy, n. Etym: [L. incontinentia: cf. F. incontinence.]
1. Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness. That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 1 Cor. vii. 5. From the rash hand of bold incontinence. Milton.
2. (Med.)
Definition: The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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