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causality en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /kɔˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ (General-American)
• [kʰɒːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ] (General-American)
• [kʰoːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ] (Received-Pronunciation)
• kôz (Received-Pronunciation)
• [kɑˈzæl.ɪ.ɾɪ] (cot-caught-merger)
• /kɑˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /kɔːˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”). By surface analysis, causal + -ity = cause + -ality.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
2. (countable, uncountable) The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.
   • 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. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 94:
   • 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. 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

Forms

Deriveds

noncausality · isocausality · retrocausality · bicausality · multicausality · acausality · microcausality · non-causality

Relateds

causative · noncausative · causal

Synonyms

causation

Translations (47)

hi कार्यकारण (cause and consequence relationship) · el αιτιότητα (cause and consequence relationship) · hu kauzalitás (cause and consequence relationship) · de Ursache und Wirkung (cause and consequence relationship) · el αιτιότητα (agency of cause) · fi kausaliteetti (agency of cause) · de Kausalität (agency of cause) · pl przyczynowość (cause and consequence relationship) · hu ok-okozatiság (cause and consequence relationship) · fr causalité (agency of cause) · pl przyczynowość (agency of cause) · sv orsakssammanhang (cause and consequence relationship) · ru причи́нно-сле́дственная связь (cause and consequence relationship) · ota سببیت (agency of cause) · pt causalidade (agency of cause) · fa علیت (agency of cause) · hi कार्यकारण (agency of cause) · ar سَبَبِيَّة (agency of cause) · cmn 因果關係 /因果关系 (agency of cause) · hi कारणता (agency of cause) · sh uzročnost (agency of cause) · hu okság (cause and consequence relationship) · ur سببیہ (agency of cause) · sv kausalitet (cause and consequence relationship) · th เหตุภาพ (agency of cause) · cmn 因果律 (agency of cause) · br arbennelezh (agency of cause) · ar عليَة (agency of cause) · ja 因果律 (agency of cause) · cs příčinnost (agency of cause) · hi कारणता (cause and consequence relationship) · bg причинност (agency of cause) · az səbəbiyyət (agency of cause) · kk себеп-салдар қатынасы (agency of cause) · gl causalidade (agency of cause) · ru причи́нность (agency of cause) · it causalità (agency of cause) · th ปัจจัยภาพ (agency of cause) · tr sebebiyet (agency of cause) · es causalidad (agency of cause) · nl oorzakelijkheid (agency of cause) · sv orsakssammanhang (agency of cause) · uz sababiyat (agency of cause) · hu ok-okozati viszony (cause and consequence relationship) · ca causalitat (agency of cause) · nl causaliteit (agency of cause) · sv kausalitet (agency of cause)