memoryless

Without a memory or memories.

Adjective

  1. 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...
  2. 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.

Origin

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.

Related

stateless

Derived

memorylessness