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What is the difference between episodic and episode?

episodic | episode |

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

English

Alternative forms

* episodick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • relating to an episode
  • * 1999, The Limey (movie)
  • When I'm not honing my craft in episodic television, I do double-duty as a voice coach.
  • 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?
  • episode

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
  • :
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
  • , chapter=10/6, title= 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.}}
  • An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin
  • , title= 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.}}

    Derived terms

    * episodic * episodical