dotage

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈdoʊtɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈdəʊtɪdʒ/

Etymology: From Middle English dotage, from doten (“to dote”) + -age; equivalent to dote + -age.

Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
“"More care!" said the old man in a shrill voice, […] 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.”
Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
“Claudio And ſhe is exceeding wiſe. Prince In euery thing but in louing Benedicke. […] I would ſhee had beſtowed this dotage on mee, […]”
Foolish utterance(s); drivel.
“No leſs are they out of the way in Philoſophy, peſtring their heads with the ſapleſs dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.”