Definition of "doting"

doting

verb
1. present participle and gerund of dote
adjective
comparative more doting, superlative most doting
1. Characterized by giving love and affection.
2. Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.
noun
plural dotings
1. Excessive fondness; reverence.
  Quotations
  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 Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley