causality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.

kôz /kɔːˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ [kʰoːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-causality.wav /kɔˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ [kʰɒːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ] /kɑˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ [kɑˈzæl.ɪ.ɾɪ]

causality causalities

From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”). By surface analysis, causal + -ity = cause + -ality.

causation

causal causative noncausative

acausality bicausality isocausality microcausality multicausality noncausality non-causality retrocausality

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