CAUSAL AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does causal agency mean? 

• CAUSAL AGENCY (noun)
  The noun CAUSAL AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

  Familiarity information: CAUSAL AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUSAL AGENCY (noun)

Meaning:

Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Synonyms:

causal agency; causal agent; cause

Hypernyms ("causal agency" is a kind of...):

physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "causal agency"):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

danger (a cause of pain or injury or loss)

cause of death; killer (the causal agent resulting in death)

engine (something used to achieve a purpose)

life principle; vital principle (a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed)

force; power (one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority)

manipulator; operator (an agent that operates some apparatus or machine)

deus ex machina (any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty)

catalyst (something that causes an important event to happen)

Destiny; Fate (the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman))

first cause; prime mover; primum mobile (an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause)

theurgy (the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs)

occult; supernatural (supernatural forces and events and beings collectively)

nature (a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe)

agent (an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect)

agent (a substance that exerts some force or effect)