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Causes vs Aetiology - What's the difference?

causes | aetiology |

As nouns the difference between causes and aetiology

is that causes is plural of lang=en while aetiology is the establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.

As a verb causes

is third-person singular of cause.

causes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (cause)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    aetiology

    English

    (wikipedia aetiology)

    Alternative forms

    * * etiology (American)

    Noun

  • The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
  • * 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I.c:
    • I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams .
  • The study of causes or causation.
  • (medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.

    • Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with etymology.

    Derived terms

    * etiologic * etiological * etiologically * etiologist