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causation

noun
/kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/UK/kɔˈzeɪ.ʃən/US/kɑˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From cause + -ation.

  1. derived from causāre
  2. derived from causer
  3. inherited from causen
  4. derived from *kaussā✻
  5. derived from causa
  6. derived from cause
  7. inherited from cause
  8. suffixed as causation — “cause + ation”

Definitions

  1. The act of causing.

  2. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.

  3. Cause and effect, considered as a system.

The neighborhood

Derived

causational, causationism, causationist, noncausation, reverse causation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at causation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at causation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at causation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA