umbilically
English edit
Etymology edit
umbilical + -ly. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ally.
Adverb edit
umbilically (not comparable)
- In an umbilical manner.
- 2013, Chris Mawson, Bion Today, page 213:
- 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 […]