Antonyms for causation

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kaw-zey-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : kɔˈzeɪ ʃən

Definition of causation

Origin : 1640s, from Latin causationem (nominative causatio) "excuse, pretext," in Medieval Latin "action of causing," from causa (see cause).

As in origin : noun cause, basis
As in making : noun imagination
As in cause : noun agent, originator
As in provenience : noun origin
As in rootstock : noun origin

Example sentences :

Yet even the Will of Omnipotence is subject to the despotism of causation.
Extract from : « Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics » by William Thomas Thornton

The chain of causation which ends with suffering begins with ignorance.
Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies

To understand them they must be studied in connection and causation.
Extract from : « An Ethnologist's View of History » by Daniel G. Brinton

Turgot had declared that one age is bound to another by a chain of causation.
Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) » by John Morley

Comte; we are now chiefly concerned with his denial of all causation.
Extract from : « Christianity and Greek Philosophy » by Benjamin Franklin Cocker

Their relation is that of mere coincidence or concomitance, and not causation.
Extract from : « The Problems of Psychical Research » by Hereward Carrington

Human pride seeks for its causation without rather than within.
Extract from : « The Arena » by Various

Of the three relations above-mentioned this of causation is the most extensive.
Extract from : « A Treatise of Human Nature » by David Hume

In causing this mistake there concur both the relations of causation and resemblance.
Extract from : « A Treatise of Human Nature » by David Hume

These three relations are identity, the situations in time and place, and causation.
Extract from : « A Treatise of Human Nature » by David Hume

Synonyms for causation

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