causality

Causality, n.; pl. Causalities (.

1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

2. (Phren.)

The faculty of tracing effects to their causes. G. Combe.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for causality; he lists it under cause.

Where he writes about it:

Causality is the doctrine or principle of causes, causation the action or working of causes. — from cause