CAUSATION Antonyms

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

• the quality of occupying the same position or area in space

• the temporal property of two things happening at the same time

• a reciprocal relation between two or more things

• a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)

• a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other

• anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

• (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work

• the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

• the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint

• the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

• the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

• lacking predictability