cumulative effects
Building up consequences
Cumulative effects are the combined impact of multiple factors or repeated actions over time.
A single exposure might be harmless, but cumulative effects can be significant: The cumulative effects of years of smoking finally caught up with him.
The term appears often in environmental and health contexts, where small individual impacts accumulate into larger consequences.
- summedAdded all together
- additiveSubstance mixed in
- stacking upArranging vertically in layers
- incrementalProceeding by small additions
- over timeAcross a duration
interaction · synergistic · consequence · tipping points · long term · compound interest · slow burn · feedback loops · aggregate · integrated · interdependencies · impact · systemic risk · death by a thousand cuts · wear and tear · intensifying · decision fatigue · habit formation
cumulative effectssudden impact
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