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causative

adj
/ˈkɔːzətɪv/UK/ˈkɔzətɪv/US/ˈkɑzətɪv/

Etymology

From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.

  1. derived from causātīvus — “causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”
  2. derived from causatif

Definitions

  1. Acting as a cause.

    • Causative in nature of a number of effects.

  2. Involving, or affected by, causality.

    • Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.

  3. Expressing a cause or causation.

    • The ablative is a causative case.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in…

      An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

The neighborhood

Derived

anticausative, anticausativisation, causatively, causativeness, causative verb, causativity, causativization, causativize, intercausative, multicausative

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at causative

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