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dotage

noun
/ˈdoʊtɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈdəʊtɪdʒ/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from dotage

Definitions

  1. Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging

    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.

  2. 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, […]

  3. Foolish utterance(s)

    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.

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Derived

anecdotage, sacerdotage

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA