memoryless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English memory Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English memoryless From memory + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a memory or memories.
Now the wide and vacant blurrings of my early life thicken in my mind. All goes wholly memoryless to me now. It may have been that about that time I grew sick with some fever, […]
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
- (not-comparable) Of a probability distribution, such that any derived probability from a set of random samples is distinct and has no information (i.e. "memory") of earlier samples.