Creation (kr-Ashn), n.
Etymology: [L. creatio: cf. F. cr. See Create.]
1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke.
2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.
3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor.
Shades of meaning
Fernald lists creation only as an antonym, under cause.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.