korsakoff's syndrome

Questions about korsakoff's syndrome

What does korsakoff's syndrome mean?

korsakoff's syndrome means "dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact".

What is another word for korsakoff's syndrome?

Close synonyms include alcoholic dementia, alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is korsakoff's syndrome a common word?

korsakoff's syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.