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Uncaused

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

adj. Existing without a perceptible cause; spontaneous.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That which happens spontaneously, unintended and uninitiated.

adj. Since all things must come from something that causes them the uncaused cause is that one thing that began the chain of existance, often identified as God.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having no precedent cause; existing without an author; uncreated; self-existent.

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

adj. having no cause or apparent cause

Word Usage

"But, this being impossible, we must be content, wherever we stop, to contemplate the uncaused, that is, the unexplained; and then all that follows is only relatively explained."

Equivalent

unintended

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

uncreated self-existent eternal

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

consubstantial ungrown autochthonic pre-existence ahistorical