dotage

Etymology

dote + -age, from Middle English doten (“to dote”).

noun

  1. Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
    "More care!" said the old man. […] There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility. 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Old Curiosity Shop
  2. Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
  3. Foolish utterance(s); drivel.

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