episodic

About 1.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Relating to an episode.
2. adjective Sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly.

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

3. adjective Consisting of a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes.

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

Similar words

temporary impermanent occasional divided unpredictable point contemporaneous one-time one-off punctual

Often followed by

memory and structure nature or memories in events dyscontrol

Word family

episodical episodically