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say it: EP-i-steem
episteme is a noun meaning "the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time". It carries one recorded sense.
the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for episteme come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.