Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dotage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dotage \Do"tage\, n. [From {Dote}, v. i.]
1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind,
particularly in old age; the childishness of old age;
senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and
the dotage of Greek literature. --Macaulay.
2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. --
Milton.
3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp.
Burnet.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dotage
n : mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes
shown by foolish infatuations [syn: {second childhood}, {senility}]
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