DOTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doting mean? 

• DOTING (adjective)
  The adjective DOTING has 1 sense:

1. extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent

  Familiarity information: DOTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent

Synonyms:

adoring; doting; fond

Context example:

hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

 Context examples 

Your poor mother, too!—doting on Marianne.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Don't it—I don't say that it does, mind I want to know—don't it rather engross him? Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting—eh?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents; how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Marianne restored to life, health, friends, and to her doting mother, was an idea to fill her heart with sensations of exquisite comfort, and expand it in fervent gratitude;—but it led to no outward demonstrations of joy, no words, no smiles.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)