cause and effect
Trigger and outcome
Cause and effect describes the relationship between an action or event and its consequence—one thing makes another happen.
The phrase appears in discussions of logic, science, and everyday reasoning: The essay explores the cause and effect of industrial pollution.
It also works as a compound modifier: a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and lung cancer.
- outcomeFinal result of events
- causalityCause-effect connection
- consequenceResult of an action
- resultWhat follows a cause
- explanationStatement making something clear
counterfactuals · smoking gun · karma · what goes around · chain reaction · etiology · sine qua non · reasoning · if then · corollary · teleology · necessary condition · aftermath · domino · slippery slope · determinism · because · butterfly
- language artsreading comprehension, grammar rules, vocabulary building, phonics, spelling bees
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, outcome
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- effectsconsequence, result, outcome, aftereffect, vignette
- life lessonslesson learned, moral, lessons learned, life lessons, parable
cause and effectcoincidence
Unplanned matching of events
random chance · happenstance · correlation · accident · fluke
cause and effectrandomness
Lack of predictable pattern
chance · chaos · disorder · indeterminacy · unpredictability
cause and effectsynchronicity
Meaningful but uncaused connection
simultaneity · interdependence · feedback loop · correlation · chicken and egg
cause, effect, affect, effects, effective, caused, effectively, ineffective, causes