"clinging" meaning in English

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          "word": "attachment"
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          "word": "clingy"
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            "adjective"
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          "word": "adherent"
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          "text": "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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