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statelessness

statelessness

1 7.9
A system or service that does not remember past interactions
  • noun
  • /ˈsteɪtˌlɛs.nəs/
  • Specialized
: sin estado
  • During the seminar, the principle of statelessness in RESTful web services was thoroughly discussed.

Examples

  • Understanding statelessness is crucial for creating effective client-server applications that do not depend on previous requests.

  • Also, from what I understand, web development has its own problems, such as statelessness and multi-browser compatibility.

    Blog text (17)

  • The developer explained that the API's statelessness simplifies interaction since each request is independent.

How Stateful

persistence
  • Specialized
4 5.5
stateful
  • Specialized
1 7.1
statelessness
  • Specialized
1 7.9

Surface Forms

statelessness singular
statelessnesses plural

Morphology

statelessness = stateless (semi-transparent) = state + less + ness

Morphologically regular (state + -less + -ness), but the sense of 'state' here is a technical one (system state/session data), which may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Statelessness comes from state (saved information about a user or session) plus -less ('without') and -ness ('the condition of'). So statelessness describes a computer system or service that does not keep past information, which helps it handle many requests without tracking users.