bedwetting

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Bedwetting is wetting the bed during sleep. Grow out of bedwetting.

It is common up to about seven and is nobody's fault, which is the thing worth saying to a child. Bedwetting stops on its own in nearly every case, and punishment makes it last longer.

Definitions of bedwetting

1nounbedwettingWetting the bed during sleep.B2
“The bedwetting stopped at eight without any treatment at all.”

bedwetting is a condition.

Where it comes from

Bed plus wetting; the older medical term is enuresis, from Greek enourein, to urinate in.

From bed + wetting.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Babies & Growing Up

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bedwetting in the wild

Diapers are primarily worn by babies, toddlers who are not yet toilet trained, and by children who experience bedwetting.
Diaper
Sexual acts may involve urine being ingested or bathed in, urinating on another person or item (such as bedwetting), and self-soiling.
Urolagnia
Nocturnal enuresis (NE), also informally called bedwetting, is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control usually begins.
Nocturnal enuresis
Only a small percentage of bedwetting cases have a specific medical cause.
Nocturnal enuresis
Other parasomnias include sleepwalking, sleep terrors, bedwetting, and sleep paralysis.
Nightmare disorder

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