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umbilically

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From umbilical + -ly. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ally.

  1. In an umbilical manner.

    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[…]