episodicity
- noun
- /ˌɛpɪˈsɒdɪsɪti/
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episodicidad
- The episodicity of the TV show kept viewers engaged as each week introduced new adventures.
Examples
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Although Abelam do recognize and make reference to historical or linear time, their primary temporal orientation is fundamentally different, being based on notions of episodicity, cyclicity, repetition, and replacement.
Academic text (1999) -
For the purpose of this formulation, a closed watershed must include erosional and depositional sites wherein C dynamics must be generalized for the flux terms, and mass balance must be accounted for at both sites for the same time period, regardless of variations in episodicity.
Academic text (2007) -
The natural disasters in that region occur with an episodicity that makes prediction difficult.
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The episodicity of her migraines meant they did not happen at regular intervals, varying from weeks to months.
Synonyms
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A pattern of something happening sometimes and stopping at other times
A series of separate events that happen instead of one long process
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Etymology
Episodicity comes from episode, which means 'a separate event' like one episode of a TV show, plus the ending -icity that makes the word mean a 'quality' or state. So episodicity describes the quality of happening in separate episodes or at odd times, not all the time or in a steady way.