EPIPHENOMENON Antonyms

• (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected

• something that causes an important event to happen

• events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something

• a justification for something existing or happening

• a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

• any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

• a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy

• give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being

• properties attributable to your ancestry

• an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

• the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

• the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived

• the hereditary derivation of an individual

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being

• a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a facility where something is available

• a person who supplies information

• someone who originates or causes or initiates something

• (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

• a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

• get (a product) from another country or business

• specify the origin of