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noncausative

noncausative adjective: not a cause.

Adjective

noncausative (not comparable)

  1. Not a cause.
    • The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative.
  2. Not involving, or affected by, causality.
    • Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.

Origin of noncausative

From non- + causative.

Words formed from noncausative

Questions about noncausative

What does noncausative mean?
Noncausative means not a cause.
What part of speech is noncausative?
Noncausative is an adjective.

Words near noncausative in the dictionary

  1. noncausal
  2. noncausalities
  3. noncausality
  4. noncausally
  5. noncausation
  6. noncausative
  7. noncausatively
  8. noncaustic
  9. noncaveolar
  10. noncavernous
  11. noncavitary

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