doting

Characterized by giving love and affection.

Adjective

  1. Characterized by giving love and affection.
    • doting parents

    Synonyms: fond

  2. Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.

Origin

From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.

Forms

more doting most doting doating

Derived

dotingly dotingness undoting

Noun

  1. Excessive fondness; reverence.
    • It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids. - 1851 November 14, Herman...

Forms

dotings doating

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dote

Forms

doating