Relating to or involving causation; describing something that has the nature or quality of causing something else.
Built from 'causation' (the act of causing) plus the suffix '-al' (meaning 'of or relating to'). The root traces back through Latin 'causa' to Indo-European origins meaning 'to break or breach,' originally referring to legal cases and disputes.
In philosophy and science, 'causational' debates rage about whether the universe is truly deterministic or whether some events just happen—it's a word that marks some of humanity's deepest arguments about free will and fate.
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