-acrasy, -acrasia, -acratia +

(Greek: weakness, weak; powerless; incontinence, lack of control; impotent)

The applications of incontinent and incontinence for this unit refer to: lacking self control, uncontrolled; the inability to restrain the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging in unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd; and in medicine, unable to restrain natural bodily evacuations.

acrasy

Irregularity, disorder, intemperance. In Spenser's Faerie Queene, intemperance or incontinence was personified as an enchantress.

copracrasia

Involuntary passage of feces and flatus which may be either psychogenic or organic in origin; incontinence.

phallacrasia

Incontinence or lacking control in sexual intercourse.

potacrasia

Incontinence or lack of control in drinking.

scoracratia

Incontinence of the feces.

sitacrasia

Incontinence or uncontrollable eating.

uracrasia

Incontinence or lacking control in urinating.

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(Greek: weakness, weak; powerless; incontinence, lack of control; impotent)

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