Umbilically
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In an umbilical manner. not-comparable
"I interpreted that he was suffering from feeling that he felt himself to be an inadequate man who could not take care of his present and future family because he still felt umbilically tied to his mother, strangling or impaling her[…]"
Example
More examples"I interpreted that he was suffering from feeling that he felt himself to be an inadequate man who could not take care of his present and future family because he still felt umbilically tied to his mother, strangling or impaling her[…]"
Etymology
From umbilical + -ly. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ally.