WordNet
alcoholic dementia
n. dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact [syn: alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis]
Usage examples of "alcoholic dementia".
He's a retarded man with advanced schizophrenia, organic brain damage, alcoholic dementia.
She had lovers at fourteen, alcoholic dementia in a mild form at fifteen, and her first shock treatments at sixteen.
She's technically alive, but she isn't really here, she is far gone in her alcoholic dementia, her liver on its final boozy gasp.