causal agent

Questions about causal agent

What does causal agent mean?

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

What is another word for causal agent?

Close synonyms include cause, causal agency. 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 agent a common word?

causal agent 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.