"continence" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɒntɪnəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-continence.wav [Southern-England] Forms: continences [plural]
Etymology: Dated from the 14th century as Middle English contynence, from Old French continence, from Latin continentia (“a repression”). See also countenance. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ten-}}, {{inh|en|enm|contynence}} Middle English contynence, {{der|en|fro|continence}} Old French continence, {{l|en|repression}} repression, {{der|en|la|continentia||a repression}} Latin continentia (“a repression”), {{doublet|en|countenance|notext=1}} countenance Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} continence (usually uncountable, plural continences)
  1. (urology) The voluntary control of urination and defecation. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Urology Translations (voluntary control of urination and defecation): задържане (zadǎržane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), continentie [feminine] (Dutch), pidättäminen (english: act) (Finnish), pidätyskyky (english: ability) (Finnish), coinneálacht [feminine] (Irish), continenza [feminine] (Italian), insumna (Mizo), insumtheihna (Mizo)
    Sense id: en-continence-en-noun-Jviikt15 Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 40 23 Topics: medicine, sciences, urology Disambiguation of 'voluntary control of urination and defecation': 96 2 2
  2. Moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms (moderation or self-restraint): asceticism, temperance Translations (moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence): ἐγκράτεια (enkráteia) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), въздържаност (vǎzdǎržanost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), умереност (umerenost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ingetogenheid [feminine] (Dutch), onthouding [feminine] (Dutch), pidättyvyys (Finnish), geanmnaíocht [feminine] (Irish), measarthacht [feminine] (Irish), féinsmacht collaí [masculine] (Irish), moderazione [feminine] (Italian), astinenza [feminine] (Italian), continenza (Italian), insumtheihna (Mizo), féin-riaghladh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), ceannsachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), geanasachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), geanachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), stuamachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), geantachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), geamnaidheachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), measarrachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), stuaim [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), avhållsamhet (Swedish), återhållsamhet (Swedish), måttlighet (Swedish), cymgadwriaeth [feminine] (Welsh), diweirdeb [masculine] (Welsh), diweirdab [masculine] (Welsh), diweiredd [masculine] (Welsh), ymarbed [feminine, masculine] (Welsh), ymatal [masculine] (Welsh), ymataliad [masculine] (Welsh), ymataliaeth [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-continence-en-noun-fZKHMTeY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 42 33 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 40 23 Disambiguation of 'moderation or self-restraint': 7 88 5 Disambiguation of 'moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence': 2 97 1
  3. Uninterrupted course; continuity. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-continence-en-noun-UOnqYPi7 Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 40 23
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: continency Related terms: countenance

Noun [French]

IPA: /kɔ̃.ti.nɑ̃s/ Forms: continences [plural]
Etymology: From Latin continentia. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|la|continentia}} Latin continentia Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} continence f (plural continences)
  1. continence Tags: feminine Related terms: contenance
    Sense id: en-continence-fr-noun-sdZeHfyS Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “all”",
      "word": "incontinence"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “moderation or self-restraint”",
      "word": "akrasia"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “moderation or self-restraint”",
      "word": "acrasy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “moderation or self-restraint”",
      "word": "intemperance"
    }
  ],
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    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ten-",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ten-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "contynence"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "continence"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French continence",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      },
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    },
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        "4": "",
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        "2": "countenance",
        "notext": "1"
      },
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    }
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    {
      "form": "continences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "countenance"
    }
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Urology"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "To maintain continence, the puborectalis muscle chokes the anal canal. The sling of tissue is supposed to release during defecation. Mine has not been doing that.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The voluntary control of urination and defecation."
      ],
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        [
          "urology",
          "urology"
        ],
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          "voluntary",
          "voluntary"
        ],
        [
          "control",
          "control"
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          "urination",
          "urination"
        ],
        [
          "defecation",
          "defecation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(urology) The voluntary control of urination and defecation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences",
        "urology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:continence."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Moderation",
          "moderation"
        ],
        [
          "self-restraint",
          "self-restraint"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "abstinence",
          "abstinence"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Uninterrupted course; continuity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "continuity",
          "continuity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒntɪnəns/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "continency"
    },
    {
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint",
      "word": "asceticism"
    },
    {
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint",
      "word": "temperance"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadǎržane",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "задържане"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "continentie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "act",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "word": "pidättäminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "ability",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "word": "pidätyskyky"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coinneálacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "continenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "lus",
      "lang": "Mizo",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "word": "insumna"
    },
    {
      "code": "lus",
      "lang": "Mizo",
      "sense": "voluntary control of urination and defecation",
      "word": "insumtheihna"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vǎzdǎržanost",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "въздържаност"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "umerenost",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "умереност"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ingetogenheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "onthouding"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "word": "pidättyvyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "enkráteia",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ἐγκράτεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "geanmnaíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "measarthacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "féinsmacht collaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "moderazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "astinenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "word": "continenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "lus",
      "lang": "Mizo",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "word": "insumtheihna"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "féin-riaghladh"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ceannsachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "geanasachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "geanachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stuamachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "geantachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "geamnaidheachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "measarrachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stuaim"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "word": "avhållsamhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "word": "återhållsamhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "word": "måttlighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cymgadwriaeth"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "diweirdeb"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "diweirdab"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "diweiredd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ymarbed"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ymatal"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ymataliad"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ymataliaeth"
    }
  ],
  "word": "continence"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "continentia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin continentia",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin continentia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "continences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "f"
      },
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    }
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "contenance"
    }
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    {
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        "French 3-syllable words",
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms derived from Latin",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
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        "continence"
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        [
          "continence",
          "continence#English"
        ]
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        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɔ̃.ti.nɑ̃s/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "continence"
}

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