"causality" meaning in English

See causality in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kɔːˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation], [kʰoːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ] [Received-Pronunciation], /kɔˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ [General-American], [kʰɒːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ] [General-American], /kɑˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ [cot-caught-merger], [kɑˈzæl.ɪ.ɾɪ] [cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-causality.wav Forms: causalities [plural]
enPR: kôz [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -ælɪti Etymology: From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”). By surface analysis, causal + -ity = cause + -ality. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|-}} Latin, {{surf|en|causal|-ity}} By surface analysis, causal + -ity, {{suffix|en|cause|ality}} cause + -ality Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} causality (countable and uncountable, plural causalities)
  1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Relativity, Time travel Translations (agency of cause): سَبَبِيَّة (sababiyya) (Arabic), عليَة (Arabic), səbəbiyyət (Azerbaijani), arbennelezh [feminine] (Breton), причинност (pričinnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), causalitat [feminine] (Catalan), 因果關係 (Chinese Mandarin), 因果关系 (yīnguǒ guānxì) (Chinese Mandarin), 因果律 (yīnguǒlǜ) (Chinese Mandarin), příčinnost [feminine] (Czech), causaliteit [feminine] (Dutch), oorzakelijkheid [feminine] (Dutch), kausaliteetti (Finnish), causalité (French), causalidade [feminine] (Galician), Kausalität [feminine] (German), αιτιότητα (aitiótita) [feminine] (Greek), कारणता (kāraṇtā) (Hindi), कार्यकारण (kāryakāraṇ) (Hindi), causalità [feminine] (Italian), 因果律 (ingaritsu) (alt: いんがりつ) (Japanese), себеп-салдар қатынасы (sebep-saldar qatynasy) (Kazakh), سببیت (Ottoman Turkish), علیت (Persian), przyczynowość [feminine] (Polish), causalidade [feminine] (Portuguese), причи́нность (pričínnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), uzročnost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), causalidad [feminine] (Spanish), kausalitet [common-gender] (Swedish), orsakssammanhang [neuter] (Swedish), sebebiyet (Turkish), سببیہ (Urdu), sababiyat (Uzbek)
    Sense id: en-causality-en-noun-j4Iwsrjn Disambiguation of Relativity: 50 50 Disambiguation of Time travel: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'agency of cause': 60 40
  2. The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Relativity, Time, Time travel
    Sense id: en-causality-en-noun-2Ly1TglZ Disambiguation of Relativity: 50 50 Disambiguation of Time: 41 59 Disambiguation of Time travel: 46 54 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ality, English terms suffixed with -ity, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Breton translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Urdu translations, Terms with Uzbek translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ality: 37 63 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 37 63 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Breton translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Urdu translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Uzbek translations: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: causation Derived forms: acausality, bicausality, isocausality, microcausality, multicausality, noncausality, non-causality, retrocausality Related terms: causal, causative, noncausative Translations (cause and consequence relationship): Ursache und Wirkung (German), αιτιότητα (aitiótita) [feminine] (Greek), कारणता (kāraṇtā) (Hindi), कार्यकारण (kāryakāraṇ) (Hindi), okság (Hungarian), ok-okozati viszony (Hungarian), kauzalitás (Hungarian), причи́нно-сле́дственная связь (pričínno-slédstvennaja svjazʹ) [feminine] (Russian), kausalitet [common-gender] (Swedish), orsakssammanhang [neuter] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'cause and consequence relationship': 48 52

Inflected forms

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