doting over
Showering with affection
Doting over is lavishing excessive attention and affection on someone, usually a child or loved one.
The phrase suggests tender, perhaps indulgent care: Grandparents doting over the new baby, She caught him doting over old photographs of his wife.
The preposition over emphasizes hovering attentiveness.
- coddlingOverindulgent, protective treatment
- adorationProfound loving regard
- apple of one's eyeOne's most beloved
- caregivingAttending to dependents
- spoilingCausing ruin or decay
lavishing · tenderness · idolization · fussing · devotion · nurturing · pampering · waiting hand and foot · smothering · helicopter parent · affection · indulging · besotted · hovering · cherishing · babying · protectiveness · attachment
attention and care
doting overneglecting
Failing to attend to
ignoring · abandoning · disregarding · overlooking · forsaking