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retrocausality

noun

Etymology

From retro- + causality.

  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 causality — “cause + ality”
  9. prefixed as retrocausality — “retro + causality”

Definitions

  1. Any of several hypothetical phenomena that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur…

    Any of several hypothetical phenomena that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retrocausality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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