Dotage /(?)/

Do·tage

Dotage

n.
  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.
  2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
    The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.
  3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
    The dotage of the nation on presbytery.