Causation

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  • noun. The act or process of causing.
  • noun. A cause.
  • noun. Causality.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of causing or producing; the principle of causality; the relation of cause to effect, or of effect to cause.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
  • noun. the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.
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  • noun. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of causing something to happen
    • Word Usage
    "Thus Dowe (2000, 2001) develops an account of ersatz causation (causation*) to explain away our intuitions that absences can be genuinely causal."
    cross-reference
    law of causation  
    Form
    causational  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    act  deed  human action  human activity  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    coercion  compulsion  inducement  inducing  induction  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    causality  cognition  continuity  depravity  determinism  
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