as in cause
someone or something responsible for a result
a supreme being is a being that, by definition, has no causality of its own
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Recent Examples of causality
If circumstances were otherwise, then perilous paradoxes could emerge: time machines could violate causality, matter could repel rather than attract, and even spacetime itself could be destabilized.
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Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
While assigning causality to human behavior is about as useful an enterprise as trying to teach a dog how to cook waffles, a couple factors may have been instrumental in circumventing another election-year collapse.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Correlation analysis does not infer causality here.
—Mark Carey, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
But establishing causality is another task.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
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Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
While assigning causality to human behavior is about as useful an enterprise as trying to teach a dog how to cook waffles, a couple factors may have been instrumental in circumventing another election-year collapse.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Correlation analysis does not infer causality here.
—Mark Carey, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
But establishing causality is another task.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for causality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for causality
Noun
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Still, the lack of a clear succession plan is a cause of great anxiety in a country where the monarch has long served as a bastion of stability.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
26 June 2025
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The cause of the Bootid meteor shower is dust and debris left in the inner solar system by comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke, a near-Earth short-period comet that orbits the sun every six years.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Noun
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The study doesn't, however, prove causation – but this link adds to the growing body of evidence that such bitter taste receptors have more complex biological impacts than simply helping hunter-gatherer humans avoid potential plant toxins.—
Bronwyn Thompson,
New Atlas,
15 June 2025
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But even collectively, the research found only correlations that might implicate nitrate—not the hard proof of causation required to trigger the difficult and controversial process of tightening federal health regulations.—
Dave Hage,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2025
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“Causality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causality. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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