MEANING
Not involving a relationship in which one thing brings about another.
Use it for
distinguishing association from causation; describing a relationship that does not produce an effect; discussing explanations that do not rely on causal mechanisms; separating a predictive link from a cause-and-effect claimSeparates an association or explanation from a claim that one event or variable produces another. Writing functions: Causation / Relationships, Qualification / Uncertainty, Evidence.
Words that belong together
- a noncausal association
- a noncausal relationship
- a noncausal explanation
On the page
A shared seasonal pattern could create a noncausal association between the two measures.
The article offers a noncausal explanation of the mathematical constraint.
Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- noncausal
Usage notes
Adjective; also written non-causal. No ordinary comparative or superlative inflection. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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