doting

English

Alternative forms

• doating (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Verb

doting

1. present participle and gerund of dote

Adjective

doting (comparative more doting, superlative most doting)

1. Characterized by giving love and affection.

   doting parents

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

Derived terms

• dotingly
• dotingness
• undoting

 

Noun

doting (plural dotings)

1. Excessive fondness; reverence.
   • 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, →OCLC:

     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.

Anagrams

• tin dog, tin god