Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

memoryless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables: mem-o-ry-less
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without a memory or memories.

adj

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.

Example Sentences

"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, […]"

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.

Derived Forms

memorylessness

Frequently Paired Words

stateless

Questions

What does memoryless mean?: Without a memory or memories.
Where does memoryless come from?: 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.

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