noncausative
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English
Etymology
Adjective
noncausative (not comparable)
- Not causative; as:
- Not a cause.
- The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative.
- Not involving, or affected by, causality.
- Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.
- Not a cause.