etiological

Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

aetiological aetiologic etiologic cause philosophy occasional decisive pivotal etiology causative determinative originative effectual formative aetiology
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Antonyms

death development end result effect product
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Examples

etiological agent Source: Internet

An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family. Source: Internet

There was some quarreling between Neisser and Hansen, Hansen as discoverer of the bacillus and Neisser as identifier of it as the etiological agent. Source: Internet

This seems also implicated in the epic of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage of Enki and Ninhursag (above), which seems an etiological myth of the fertilisation of the dry ground by the coming of irrigation water (from Sumerian a, ab, water or semen). Source: Internet

This episode, which is not known from Egyptian sources, gives an etiological explanation for a cult of Isis and Osiris that existed in Byblos in Plutarch's time and possibly as early as the New Kingdom. Source: Internet

Mythology main An etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

etiolize etiolized etiologic etiologically etiologics etiologist