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Causality

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The principle of or relationship between cause and effect.

n. A causal agency, force, or quality.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

n. The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. That which constitutes a cause; the activity of causing; the character of an event as causing.

n. The relation of cause to effect, or of effect to cause; the law or principle that nothing can happen or come into existence without a cause. See law of causation, under causation.

n. In phrenology, the faculty, localized in an organ or division of the brain, to which is attributed the tracing of effects to their causes.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the relation between causes and effects

Word Usage

"The causality is not that simple as is sometimes argued, he says."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

relation

Cross Reference

principle of causality

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

causation conditionality relativity equivalence totality