causation

Noun

Meaning

The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

origin creation origination causality causing causal link causal relationship causal nexus foundation production influence source beginning cause ground
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Antonyms

echo result development end effect product
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Hypernyms

act deed human action human activity

Hyponyms

influence trigger induction initiation coercion compulsion

Examples

Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation. Harold Bloom

I had been confused why I had gotten cancer. Three weeks later, I saw the network of causation so clearly I wondered why I wasn't more disease-riddled. My healer reminded me that if health is based on forgiveness, then I had to forgive ... Kathy Acker

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. Amartya Sen

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. Trofim Lysenko

According to Plotinus for example, Plato's metaphor of a craftsman should be seen only as a metaphor, and Plato should be understood as agreeing with Aristotle that the rational order in nature works through a form of causation unlike everyday causation. Source: Internet

According to Thomas Rosenmeyer regarding the religious import of Aeschylus, "In Aeschylus, as in Homer, the two levels of causation, the supernatural and the human, are co-existent and simultaneous, two way of describing the same event." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

causality causally causate causational causationism causationist