- the process of one event causing or producing another eventTopics Change, cause and effectc2
- (also causality)the relationship between something that happens and the reason for it happening; the principle that nothing can happen without a cause
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin causatio(n-) ‘pretext’ (in medieval Latin ‘the action of causing’), from causare ‘to cause’.
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