noncausal
adjective
formal(alsonon-causal)uk/ˌnɒnˈkɔː.zəl/us/ˌnɑːnˈkɑː.zəl/not having orinvolvingacause:
There is a noncausalrelationbetween the twooutcomes.
Even veryyoungchildrencantellthedifferencebetweencausaland non-causalevents.
- There is very littleevidenceto show whether thedifferencesaredueto acausalor a non-causalexplanation.
- We wereabletoruleout a noncausalinterpretationof thedata.
- It is hard to say whether thesedifferencesrepresentcausalor non-causaleffects.
- Some of theconnectionsareclearlynoncausal.
Chance and randomness
- accident
- aleatory
- arbitrarily
- arbitrariness
- arbitrary
- even-money
- fluke
- fluky
- fortuitous
- fortuitously
- long shot
- luck
- luck intosomething
- more by accident than designidiom
- more by luck than judgmentidiom
- randomized
- randomly
- randomness
- serendipitous
- stumble intosomething