Causal Friday

(n) A Friday that is meant to be all things Friday, i.e. wasting time at work, leaving early for happy hour, and closing down the bar.

"Dude, after work today let's go out to the bar for a causal Friday."

by doingthings November 25, 2014

Causativity

Accepting responsibility for a problem or issue at hand. Owning the part you play in a given situation and allowing positive changes to happen due to your specific actions.

After reflecting on our conversation, I realized that the causativity of the outcome falls directly on me, and I aim to make improvements in the future.

by mc7177 July 8, 2015

causal will

Causal will is the ability to make choices that are predetermined by external forces or internal compulsions. Everything has a cause, so everything, including our choice and will, is causal.

Although we lack free will, we do have causal will.

by AbsurdistJiffu July 9, 2024

Causal Displacement

A state in which a person or entity has been removed from reality’s cause-and-effect system, resulting in their inability to influence or interact with the world around them.

When someone is in causal displacement or "Out of Position," they still exist, but reality no longer processes them. Events continue normally without them, while from their perspective, the environment may appear frozen, muted, or desynchronized.

It is not death, teleportation, freeze time, or time travel.
It is a complete removal from active causality.

Often occurs when a higher system (such as a multiversal authority) forcibly disconnects an anomaly from reality.

The moment the system detects anomalies that violate the Structural Reality Coherence System, the anomalies disconnect from physical reality, causing them to experience Causal Displacement. Everything around the amonoly freezes, but reality continues without them.

by MultiWorks Dictionary April 2, 2026

Causadipity

That moment when you plan something perfectly… and then act surprised it worked.

Causadipity is the opposite of dumb luck. It’s smart luck pretending to be chill.

by Azeas June 7, 2025

synchronicit causality

The phenomenon where in people that are geographically separated experience a coincidence with no other possible explanation, that would not have happened otherwise.

You pick up the phone to dial your sister, and she is already on the line without dialing, or the phone ringing, as she has already called you.

But you know that if you did not go to call her, she would not have tried to call you - synchronicit causality

It was the act of picking up the phone that precipitated the event.

by Lostware February 1, 2012

Preserved Causality Theory

A hypothetical framework proposing that faster-than-light (FTL) travel does not necessarily imply time travel or causality violation. Contrary to conventional physics (where FTL equals time travel via relativity), Preserved Causality Theory suggests that causality is more fundamental than light speed limits—that there's a deeper structure ensuring causes precede effects regardless of velocity. This could involve privileged reference frames, quantum non-locality extended to macroscopic scales, or novel spacetime geometry that allows FTL without temporal paradoxes. The theory opens the door to interstellar travel while keeping grandma safe from accidental erasure. It's the dream of every sci-fi fan who wants warp drive without the headache of meeting your own grandfather.

"But Einstein said FTL equals time travel!" they protested. "Preserved Causality Theory," the warp drive engineer replied, "suggests Einstein was right about light but wrong about causality being tied to it. We're going to Alpha Centauri in a week, and we'll be back before we left—no, wait, we'll be back after we left. Causality preserved. Probably." The theory remains unproven, but so does faster-than-light travel itself."

by Nammugal March 4, 2026