causal factor

Questions about causal factor

What does causal factor mean?

causal factor means "a determining or causal element or factor".

What is another word for causal factor?

Close synonyms include determinant, determiner, determinative, determining factor. 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 factor a common word?

causal factor 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.