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Adherent vs Clinging - What's the difference?

adherent | clinging |

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

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Adhesive, sticking to something.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  • (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    clinging

    Verb

    (head)
  • Synonyms

    * (noun) * (adjective)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.