episodic

Examples

• All

• Let's have a family drama that moves you through all kinds of more episodic moments.

• His interest in matters geographical was necessarily episodic, given the events of his extensive public life.

  Academic text (2008)

• It's important to know that this is not episodic or spontaneous.

  Stanford

• Results: Male students reported higher rates of drinking and heavy episodic drinking compared to females.

  Academic text (2015)

• The term 'migraine' describes an episodic, sick headache in a person who is usually well between attacks.

  Academic text (2011)

• You are suffering from what they call retrograde amnesia and that affects your episodic memories.

  Remember Me (2022)

• Stalin-era critics often commented that Soviet films did not have a plot and were episodic or poorly structured.

  Academic text (2017)

• The series had an episodic format, with each episode telling a different story.

• His health issues were mostly episodic, with symptoms that appeared irregularly over the years.

Synonyms

O

occasional

vsepisodic

285 2.8

Happening now and then but not often

often carries an added sense of not regular timing rather than mere rarity

S

sporadic

vsepisodic

35 7.0

Happening sometimes and in different places

may instead stress low frequency rather than the fact of being scattered

I

intermittent

vsepisodic

35 6.5

Happening sometimes but not all the time

often also signals that events do not happen often over long periods

I

irregular

vsepisodic

27 3.5

Happening at no fixed times

can also mean that occurrences are rare or happen only now and then

I

infrequent

vsepisodic

13 4.5

Happening only sometimes and not often

also often implies timing varies rather than simply only low repetition

O

off-and-on

vsepisodic

3 3.8

Happening sometimes and stopping at other times

often describes rare cases without stressing the stopping and starting image

N

nonperiodic

vsepisodic

7.6

Happening at irregular times

often suggests appearances are not often seen rather than following any set timetable

A

aperiodic

vsepisodic

• Specialized

8.2

Does not happen at regular times or repeat a pattern

is usually used when events do not happen often rather than regularly

N

noncyclical

vsepisodic

7.2

Not happening in regular cycles

tends to imply occurrences are rare or happen only at scattered times

Antonyms

C

continuous

141 3.7

Without a break or gap, for example in a curve

Compounds

E

episodic memory

• Specialized

1 6.3

The ability to remember specific events from your own life with their details

E

episodic memory

• Specialized

6.5

A computer system in AI that records past events so a program can learn and plan

How Frequent

regular

870 1.0

occasional

285 2.8

episodic

3 7.1

sporadic

35 7.0

rare

582 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology