DOTAGE, noun [from dote.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age, childishness of old age; as a venerable man now in his dotage 2. A doting; excessive fondness. 3. Deliriousness. [See the verb, to dote.]
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