clinging

1. Clingy.

   He became more clinging, more mischievous and more difficult.

   2008, John Bowlby, Attachment

   2 more examples

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

   1894, Ludovic Halévy, Parisian Points of View, page 182

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

   2016, Ferenc Szabadváry, R. Belcher, L. Gordon, History of Analytical Chemistry, page 15

   Synonyms: adherent, adhesive, clingy

plural clingings

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.

   2013, Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics, page 217

   Synonyms: attachment

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cling