causal agency

Questions about causal agency

What does causal agency mean?

causal agency means "any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results".

What is another word for causal agency?

Close synonyms include causal agent, cause. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is causal agency a common word?

causal agency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.