clinging
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklɪŋɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: cling‧ing
Synonyms
- (noun): attachment
- (adjective): clingy, adherent, adhesive
Noun
clinging (plural clingings)
- The act of one who clings.
- 2013, Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics, page 217:
- The mind […] ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings, and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.
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