causality

From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”); see causal.

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.

• non-causality
• noncausality

• causal
• causation

• causality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• causality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.