| Epistemological Despondency | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Esoteric |
| Cover: | Epistemological_Despondency.jpg |
| Released: | October 1994 |
| Recorded: | 6 - 16 June 1994 |
| Studio: | Rich Bitch Studios, Birmingham |
| Genre: | Funeral doom metal |
| Length: | 89:00 |
| Label: | Aesthetic Death |
| Producer: | Esoteric |
| Prev Title: | Esoteric Emotions - The Death of Ignorance |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | The Pernicious Enigma |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Epistomological Despondency is the first studio album by British doom metal band Esoteric. The album was released in 1994 as a double CD through Aesthetic Death Records, and was remastered and reissued in 2004. In a retrospective article written about the album by Metal Injection editor Cody Davis, the album "built Esoteric's foundation in funeral doom."[1]