Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The principle of or relationship between cause and effect.
- n. A causal agency, force, or quality.
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.
Wiktionary
- n. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
- n. (Phren.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the relation between causes and effects
Etymologies
- From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis ("causal"), from causa ("cause"); see causal. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The causality is not that simple as is sometimes argued, he says.”
“In turn, belief in causality requires a prime cause, and almost all religion is based on trying to explain in one way or another the prime cause.”
“It seems pretty trivial as statement, but correlation and causality is too often considered as being the same.”
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“How causality is approached can be a matter of perspective.”
“From the moment of my birth, light (that I could have influenced) has been expanding around the Earth and light (which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin) reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone.”
“The interesting causality is that one of the reasons the Republicans took so long to retake Congress is that they thought it was a good idea to campaign against Social Security and Medicare.”
“Steve: The interesting causality is that one of the reasons the Republicans took so long to retake Congress is that they thought it was a good idea to campaign against Social Security and Medicare.”
“This disregard for causality is much more substantial than that allowed for by time travel.”
“Final causality" is a concept only for people claiming to know final causes.”
“That causality is probably a stretch, too, but how else do you explain how the record companies were caught so flat-footed?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘causality’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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SCIE - statistics
Abbe-Helmert crit..., a priori probability, alphabet, total correlation, three-dimensional..., theoretical frequ..., time reversal test, three-series theorem, theoretical variable, tetrachoric corre..., absolutely unbias..., absolute error and 4171 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Mike Doughty/Soul Coughing
Words and phrases from his lyrics.
incumbent, jawgrind, boop shuh-nai, mopstyle, boombox moocher, Buddha-plump van, slingbacked, half-moon, maquereau, aphasia, barter yardie, boom-bap and 30 more...
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philosophical concepts
Different concepts and branches of philosophy which haven't become independent fields of investigation. For example, "physicalism" is valid but not "physics", "scientism" but not "science", "cogni...
philosophy, ontology, epistemology, ethics, logic, nominalism, analytic philosophy, semiotics, structuralism, deconstructionism, postmodernism, skepticism and 40 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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anotherfailedattempt's Words
kakistocracy, conflagration, pollyanna, equanimity, punctillious, obstreperous, ribald, belligerent, truculent, verbose, lachrymose, onanism and 278 more...
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To Learn
Words to learn via rote repetition.
atechnic, veridical, abjure, recrudescence, acquisitiveness, adipocere, alembic, adventitious, aliment, alimentiveness, amativeness, anterior and 111 more...
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nfk9595's Words
magnetohydrodynamics, bovine, epistle, gargantuan, kerfuffle, verbiage, morose, coup de main, elan, achtung, uber, verboten and 497 more...
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philosophical
epiphany, sub specie aetern..., ontological, metaphysical, philosophise, cosmology, aesthetics, synthetic, analytic, empiricism, rationalism, causality and 2 more...
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April 2010
first list of words
miscegenation, anodyne, anomie, anthropomorphic, apotheosis, bijou, bumptious, causality, contrarian, dystopia, ephemera, exemplary and 9 more...
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Health Slayer Industry
Well, it's not all bad. But too much is.
analgesia, analgesic, resveratrol, tachycardia, tachycardic, polyphenols, allele, allelic, tzaraath, reuptake, serotonin, nostrum and 86 more...
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legal words
inchoate, incarceration, judgment, sentence, attempt, finding, imprisonment, due process, certification, probable cause, abnormality, whereas and 59 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Woven in the Loom
Fate is a funny thing.
fate, destiny, kismet, fortune, predestination, doom, chance, karma, providence, moira, amor fati, causality and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for causality.
nuxiy Kausalitet on Norwegian May 14, 2009