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causality

/kɔːˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/US/kɔˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/

causality noun: the agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

Noun

causality (countable and uncountable, plural causalities)

  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.
    • 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...2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103

causality meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

causality in Hindi

agency of cause
कारणता kāraṇtā, कार्यकारण kāryakāraṇ
cause and consequence relationship
कारणता kāraṇtā, कार्यकारण kāryakāraṇ

causality in Tamil

காரணமாகச் செயல்படுதல்

causality in Urdu

agency of cause
سببیہ

causality in Malayalam

causality
അത്യാഹിതം atyāhitaṁ, അപായം apāyaṁ
causality or emergency department of Hospital
അത്യാഹിതം atyāhitaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
causality in Arabic
سَبَبِيَّة sababiyya, عليَة
causality in Persian
علیت
causality in Thai
เหตุภาพ, ปัจจัยภาพ

Examples of causality in a sentence

  • Whatever necessary precursor to all of causality exists, it logically has to exist for no reason.
  • Causality in the Intentionality Model is in the agency of the child.
  • The first deals with causality, chance and contingency, the second with the sources of cognitive validity.

All 18 example sentences with causality

Synonyms of causality

Forms of causality

pluralcausalities

Plural of causality: causalities

Origin of causality

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

Words formed from causality

Words that rhyme with causality

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Questions about causality

What does causality mean?
Causality means the agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
What is causality in Hindi?
Causality in Hindi is कारणता (kāraṇtā), कार्यकारण (kāryakāraṇ). See Causality meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is causality?
Causality is a noun.
How do you pronounce causality?
Causality is pronounced /kɔːˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of causality?
The plural of causality is causalities.

Words near causality in the dictionary

  1. causalism
  2. causalisms
  3. causalist
  4. causalists
  5. causalities
  6. causality
  7. causally
  8. causals
  9. causate
  10. causated
  11. causates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: causality (page history and authors); causality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അത്യാഹിതം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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