doting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dote

adj

1. Characterized by giving love and affection.

   “doting parents”

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

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.”