What is the difference between episodic and episode?
episodic | episode |
relating to an episode
* 1999, The Limey (movie)
sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly
:* Fortunately, my episodic bouts of dizziness didn't prevent me from climbing Chichen Itzá.
(literature) made up a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes
:* I just read five attempts at episodic novels — has nobody heard of a plot anymore?
An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
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Episode is a derived term of episodic.
As an adjective episodic
is relating to an episode.As a noun episode is
an incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.episodic
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Alternative forms
* episodick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- When I'm not honing my craft in episodic television, I do double-duty as a voice coach.
episode
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(wikipedia episode)Noun
(en noun)The Norwich Victims, passage=The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode , which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), work=The Onion AV Club , passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}