causality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cau=sal=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

causality, n. 

•  The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.  [1913 Webster]

  "The causality of the divine mind."  [1913 Webster]
•  The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.  G. Combe.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

causality, n.
1 the relation of cause and effect.
2 the principle that everything has a cause.

ROGET THESAURUS

causality

Cause

N cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.