The quality or state of being causative; the characteristic of causing or producing effects.
From 'causative' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ness,' which creates abstract nouns denoting qualities or states from adjectives.
Medieval natural philosophers struggled to understand causativeness itself—what is the fundamental nature of causation? This question still drives physics and metaphysics today!
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