etiological

What does etiological mean?

etiological means "of or relating to the philosophical study of causation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in etiological?

etiological has 6 syllables: e-ti-o-lo-gi-cal. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for etiological?

Close synonyms include etiologic, aetiological, aetiologic, etiologic, aetiological. 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 etiological a common word?

etiological 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for etiological come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.