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cause
  1. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
  2. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
  3. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
  4. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
  5. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
  6. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Jerry and George inadvertently join a group of white supremacists in a limo, and unbeknownst to them, their presence will be the cause of a local protest.”
      “Driving under the influence of alcohol was the cause behind the collision.”
      “The Joker has been the cause of destruction in Gotham City for as long as Bruce can remember.”
causation
  1. The act of causing.
  2. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
  3. Cause and effect; causality.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “A breach of duty was conceded, but the causation of the injury was not accepted.”
      “Such a view reconciles free will not with determinism but with the highly plausible thesis of universal event causation.”
      “In the study of environmental toxins, the causation of diverse effects is usually the rule rather than the exception.”
causality
  1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
  2. The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Granger causality tests were then conducted on the smoothed data to determine the direction of causality.”
      “The second key point about social interaction capacity takes the form of a question about causality and connectivity.”
      “To illustrate this point, he looks first in his essay at how the modern understanding of causality differs from that of the ancients.”
causalism
  1. The doctrine that actions have a direct cause, especially that people's actions are caused by their mental state at the time
causee
  1. (linguistics) The agent of the caused event in a causative construction.
causative
  1. (linguistics) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
causelessness
  1. The state or quality of being causeless; absence of a cause.
causer
  1. someone or something that causes or produces an effect.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The causer of the global warming crisis is human activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels.”
      “Eusen felt sad to be the causer of such hate in Kahienra, a child playmate, an old friend.”
      “I am not causer, said Sir Launcelot, for with falsehood ye would have had slain me with treason, and now it is fallen on you both.”
causator
  1. (obsolete) One who causes something; a causer.
causativization
  1. The process of causativizing.
causedness
  1. The state or quality of being caused.
causativeness
causalist
  1. A proponent of causalism
causate
  1. (philosophy) The effect of a cause.
causeful
  1. (obsolete) Having a cause.
causativizations
  1. plural of causativization
causalisms
  1. plural of causalism
causations
  1. plural of causation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Since this was a correlational study, no causations can be assumed regarding self-esteem.”
      “But counter-stories and challenges to the causations of such oblivion find little or no public space.”
      “Yet, by the end of the semester, this was the book that most illuminated their understandings of the complex causations behind forest change.”
causatives
  1. plural of causative
  2. Examples:
    1. “Like causatives and desideratives, denominatives follow the inflection of thematic verbs of the Present System.”
      “The fact that some idioms are restricted to causatives, while others are restricted to inchoatives, lends new support to the view that the two derivations are distinct.”
      “Verbs comprise verbal roots, but also their variations with prefix strings of preverb particles, and secondary formations for causatives, intensives and desideratives.”
causalists
  1. plural of causalist
causalities
  1. plural of causality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It used to be a general comment that quality and standards are causalities in herbal drug development.”
      “That has seriously affected the daily life of local residents and has caused large numbers of civilian causalities.”
      “He said a change in the weather may have meant there were fewer causalities than there might have been.”
causators
  1. plural of causator
causates
  1. plural of causate
causees
  1. plural of causee
causers
causes
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