causality

[kaw-zal-i-tee] /kɔˈzæl ɪ ti/
noun, plural causalities.
1.
the relation of cause and effect:
The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.
2.
causal quality or agency.
Origin
1595-1605; causal + -ity
Related forms
noncausality, noun
Can be confused
casualty, causality, causation, cause (see synonym study at cause)
Examples from the web for causality
  • So causality is not being violated, unless you had new laws of physics.
  • One way to think of it is confusing correlation with causality.
  • The exact causality can only be speculated at this point but the correlations are robust.
  • The amazing thing there is that they can do this without violating causality.
  • The discerning historian knows that there are levels of causality.
  • But it turns out that computers can learn a lot about causality by reading personal blogs.
  • If this weren't true then conservation of angular momentum and causality itself wouldn't exist.
  • They seem to cower at the suggestion of rising action, to blush at the heightened causality that makes a story a story.
  • Some basic philosophical teaching would be rather useful to enable economists to think about causality with more of an open mind.
  • It's natural for us to arrange pictures from left to right to show chronology or causality.
British Dictionary definitions for causality

causality

/kɔːˈzælɪtɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1.
  1. the relationship of cause and effect
  2. the principle that nothing can happen without being caused
2.
causal agency or quality
Word Origin and History for causality
n.

c.1600, from causal + -ity.