causal
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1 : relating to or showing the cause of something
- No causal connection/relationship between the events was found.
- There is a causal link between poverty and crime.
2 : making something happen: causing something
- The causal [=causative] agent of the disease is a fungus.
— causally
adverb- The events are causally related.
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