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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agent, originator |
| Synonyms: | account, agency, aim, antecedent, author, basis, beginning, causation, consideration, creator, determinant, doer, element, end, explanation, foundation, genesis, ground, grounds, incitement, inducement, instigation, leaven, mainspring, maker, matter, motivation, motive, object, occasion, origin, prime mover, principle, producer, purpose, root, source, spring, stimulation |
| Antonyms: | consequence, development, effect, end, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result |
| Main Entry: | making |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination |
| Synonyms: | authoring, building, causation, composition, conception, constituting, construction, contriving, designing, devising, fabrication, fancying, fashioning, forging, formulation, occasioning, origination, performing, planning, producing, production, shaping |
| Main Entry: | provenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, beginning, causality, causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg, element, embryo, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generator, germ, horse's mouth, impulse, inception, inducement, influence, inspiration, mainspring, mother, motive, nucleus, occasion, parent, parentage, principle, producer, progenitor, provenance, root, roots, rootstock, seed, source, spring*, stock, well, wellspring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rootstock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, beginning, causality, causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg, element, embryo, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generator, germ, horse's mouth, impulse, inception, inducement, influence, inspiration, mainspring, mother, motive, nucleus, occasion, parent, parentage, principle, producer, progenitor, provenance, provenience, root, roots, seed, source, spring*, stock, well, wellspring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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| Concept: | [Constant antecedent] Cause. |
| Category: | 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile; vera causa; author (producer); mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation (support)., spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo, genesis; descent (paternity); remote cause; influence., pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back., ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation; final cause (intention); les dessous des cartes; undercurrents., rudiment; egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix, radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm., nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed., causality, causation; origination; production.
-verbs
be the cause of; originate; give origin to, give rise to, give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate; bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce; create; set up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, institute, lay the foundation of; lie at the root of., procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate; elicit, provoke., conduce to (tend to); contribute; have a hand in the pie, have a finger in the pie; determine, decide, turn the scale; have a common origin; derive its origin (effect).
-adjectives
caused; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, in ovo; seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a common origin.
-adverbs
because; behind the scenes.
-phrases
causa latet vis est notissima [Ovid]; felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas [Vergil. "Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things" (Latin)].
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| Antonyms: | effect |
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