English > causal agency: 1 sense > noun 1, Tops| Meaning | Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results. |
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| Synonyms | causal agent, cause |
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| Narrower | agent | An active and efficient cause |
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| agent | A substance that exerts some force or effect |
| catalyst | Something that causes an important event to happen |
| cause of death, killer | The causal agent resulting in death |
| danger | A cause of pain or injury or loss |
| destiny, fate | The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman) |
| deus ex machina | Any active agent who appears unexpectedly / unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty |
| engine | Something used to achieve a purpose |
| first cause, prime mover, primum mobile | An agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause |
| nature | A causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe |
| operator, manipulator | An agent that operates some apparatus or machine |
| person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
| power, force | One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority |
| supernatural, occult | supernatural forces and events and beings collectively |
| theurgy | The effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs |
| vital principle, life principle | A hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed |
| Broader | physical entity | An entity that has physical existence |
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| Spanish | agente causal, causa |
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| Catalan | agent causal, causa |
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