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causation
noun as in cause
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in making
noun as in origin
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in provenience
Strong matches
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
Weak match
noun as in rootstock
Strong matches
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- provenience
- root
- roots
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
Weak match
Example Sentences
In other words, correlation is not the same as causation.
Although the study does not establish causation, it reveals a group of biomarkers that closely resemble those found in older adults with cognitive impairment.
Lately, though, the conventional wisdom has been challenged, and for good reason: Independent, peer-reviewed research has found no correlation—let alone causation—between diversity and performance.
There is probably some truth to that theory, but the stock market is too complicated, too interconnected with other markets, and too global for simple causation.
There is probably some truth to that theory, but the stock market is too complicated, too interconnected with other markets, and too global for simple causation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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