korsakoff's syndrome

Questions about korsakoff's syndrome

What is another word for korsakoff's syndrome?

It depends which korsakoff's syndrome 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 alcoholic dementia, alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, 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 korsakoff's syndrome?

WordNet records no antonym for korsakoff's syndrome. 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 korsakoff's syndrome 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.

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