noncausative
adjEtymology From non- + causative.
› Not causative.
1
Not a cause.
- The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative.
2
Not involving, or affected by, causality.
- Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.
- Derived terms
- noncausatively