causality
n.n. the relationship between two things where one causes the other to happen. It is the idea that one event makes another event happen.
n. the relationship between an event and a second event that occurs as a direct consequence. Often used in scientific or philosophical contexts to describe the mechanism of cause and effect.
The study shows a clear causality between smoking and lung disease.
Researchers are trying to establish the causality between the new drug and the patient's improved health.
In physics, the principle of causality ensures that an effect cannot occur before its cause, maintaining a logical order within the universe.
From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”). By surface analysis, causal + -ity = cause + -ality.