clinging

adj

1. Clingy.

   “Yes, very clinging; my cousin has a delightful figure, and can stand it.”

   “He became more clinging, more mischievous and more difficult.”

   “It is a greyish white, high melting metal, very clinging, not very ductile and with difficulty malleable.”

noun

1. The act of one who clings.

   “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.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of cling