Usually means: Control over bodily excretory functions.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. continence: Merriam-Webster
  2. continence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. continence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. continence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. continence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Continence, continence: Wordnik
  7. continence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. continence: Wiktionary
  9. continence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. continence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. continence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. continence: Dictionary.com
  13. Continence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Continence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. continence: Rhymezone
  16. Continence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. continence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. continence: FreeDictionary.org
  19. continence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. continence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. continence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. continence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. continence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. continence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. continence: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Continence: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (continence)

▸ noun:  (urology) The voluntary control of urination and defecation.
▸ noun:  Moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence.
▸ noun:  Uninterrupted course; continuity.

Similar:
continency, incontinence, incontinency, anuresis, nature, dyscontrol, controllableness, urotoxicity, uroselectivity, uncontrolableness, more...

Opposite:
incontinence, unrestraint

Types:
urinary, fecal, sexual, vocal, mental, more...

Phrases:
urinary continence, ostomy and continence nurses society, more...

Adjectives:
urinary, sexual, fecal, male, anal, periodic, complete, absolute, perfect, strict, perpetual

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Similar:
continency, incontinence, incontinency, anuresis, nature, dyscontrol, controllableness, urotoxicity, uroselectivity, uncontrolableness, more...

Opposite:
incontinence, unrestraint

Types:
urinary, fecal, sexual, vocal, mental, more...

Phrases:
urinary continence, ostomy and continence nurses society, more...

Adjectives:
urinary, sexual, fecal, male, anal, periodic, complete, absolute, perfect, strict, perpetual



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