Definitions for causation

causation cau·sa·tion

Spelling: [kaw-zey-shuh n]
IPA: /kɔˈzeɪ ʃən/

Causation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 468 anagrams from letters in causation (aacinostu).

Definitions for causation

noun

  1. the action of causing or producing.
  2. the relation of cause to effect; causality.
  3. anything that produces an effect; cause.

Origin of causation

1640-50; Medieval Latin causātiōn- (stem of causātiō), equivalent to causāt(us) (past participle of causāre to cause) (Latin caus(a) cause + -ātus Examples for causation

The chain of causation which ends with suffering begins with ignorance.

For one thing, the Redskins Rule reveals correlation, not causation.

Comte; we are now chiefly concerned with his denial of all causation.

In arguing that abortion causes suicide, abortion opponents turn correlation into causation.

The aforementioned surveys may not be sufficient to make any firm conclusions about correlation, and much less about causation.

Yet even the Will of Omnipotence is subject to the despotism of causation.

The new study sees a correlation—and suggests a causation—between sexting and sex, but the conclusions researchers draw are vague.

“The plaintiffs have to prove the causation aspect,” Shapiro told The Daily Beast.

To understand them they must be studied in connection and causation.

Turgot had declared that one age is bound to another by a chain of causation.

Word Value for causation
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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