alcoholic dementia

Questions about alcoholic dementia

What is another word for alcoholic dementia?

It depends which alcoholic dementia you mean. In the sense “dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact”, the synonyms are alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of alcoholic dementia?

WordNet records no antonym for alcoholic dementia. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for alcoholic dementia come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of alcoholic dementia

• Full entry for alcoholic dementiaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for alcoholic dementiaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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