doting

present participle and gerund of doteform-ofgerundparticiple

Characterized by giving love and affection.

• doting parents

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

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.