Causality

Quick meaning: Causality is a noun meaning The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.

Example Sentences

But how do transformations like the evolution of language take place? A scientist looks for a cause inside time; a mystic knows that causality is essentially a process that is outside time-space.

But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.

Word Forms

• causalities

Synonyms for causality

Depending on context, synonyms include causation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include causal, cause, causation, causative, accountability, agency.

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