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episodic

adj
/ˌɛp.ɪˈsɒd.ɪk/UK/ˌɛp.ɪˈsɑ.dɪk/CA/ˌep.ɪˈsɔd.ɪk/

Etymology

From episode + -ic. Compare French épisodique.

  1. derived from ἐπεισόδιον
  2. derived from *epīsodium✻
  3. borrowed from épisode
  4. suffixed as episodic — “episode + ic”

Definitions

  1. Relating to an episode.

    • When I'm not honing my craft in episodic television, I do double-duty as a voice coach.

  2. Sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly.

    • Fortunately, my episodic bouts of dizziness didn't prevent me from climbing Chichen Itzá.

  3. Consisting of a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes.

    • I just read five attempts at episodic novels — has nobody heard of a plot anymore?

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Derived

episodically, episodic dyscontrol syndrome, episodicity, episodic memory, episodic wave, multiepisodic, nonepisodic, webisodic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at episodic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at episodic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at episodic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA