Synonyms for causation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kaw-zey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : kɔˈzeɪ ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for causation Other synonyms for the word causation
- account
- agency
- agent
- aim
- antecedent
- author
- authoring
- base
- basis
- beginning
- building
- causality
- causation
- composition
- conception
- consideration
- constituting
- construction
- contriving
- creator
- derivation
- designing
- determinant
- devising
- doer
- egg
- embryo
- end
- fabrication
- fancying
- fashioning
- forging
- foundation
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- genesis
- germ
- ground
- grounds
- horse's mouth
- impulse
- inception
- incitement
- inducement
- inspiration
- instigation
- leaven
- mainspring
- maker
- mother
- nucleus
- object
- occasion
- occasioning
- origin
- origination
- parent
- parentage
- performing
- planning
- prime mover
- principle
- producer
- producing
- production
- progenitor
- provenance
- provenience
- purpose
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- seed
- shaping
- source
- spring
- stimulation
- stock
- well
- wellspring
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for causation
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019