causation
/kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/US/kɔˈzeɪ.ʃən/
causation noun: the act of causing.
Noun
causation (countable and uncountable, plural causations)
- The act of causing.
- The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
- Aristotle's views led him to try to describe the kind of causation by which vision is produced, instead of the laws by which it is exercised; and the attempt consisted, as in other subjects, of indistinct principles, and ill-combined facts.1837, William Whewell, “Earliest Stages of Optics”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge...
- Cause and effect.
- Synonyms:
- causality
causation meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu
causation in Hindi
- act of causing
- कार्यकारण kāryakāraṇ
- agency by which an effect is produced
- कार्यकारण kāryakāraṇ, कारणता kāraṇtā
causation in Tamil
- தூண்டு காரணம்
causation in Urdu
- سبب سازی, کازشن
Examples of causation in a sentence
- Hume cashed out the concept of causation into such experiential terms as spatiotemporal contiguity, temporal succession, and constant conjunction.
- Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.
- However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.
Synonyms of causation
Forms of causation
| plural | causations |
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Origin of causation
From cause + -ation.
Words formed from causation
Words that rhyme with causation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about causation
- What does causation mean?
- Causation means the act of causing.
- What is causation in Hindi?
- Causation in Hindi is कार्यकारण (kāryakāraṇ), कारणता (kāraṇtā). See Causation meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is causation?
- Causation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce causation?
- Causation is pronounced /kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of causation?
- The plural of causation is causations.
Words near causation in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: causation (page history and authors); causation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); causation (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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