Adherent vs Clinging - What's the difference?
adherent | clinging |
Adhesive, sticking to something.
Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
(botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
The act of one who clings.
* 2013 , Lawrence C. Becker, ?Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics (page 217)
As verbs the difference between adherent and clinging
is that adherent is while clinging is .As a noun clinging is
the act of one who clings.adherent
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Alexander Pope)
Anagrams
* ----clinging
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(wikipedia clinging)Verb
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* (noun) * (adjective)Noun
(en noun)- 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.