causingness

From causing +‎ -ness.

causingness (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The quality or characteristic of being the cause of something.
   • 1829, John Stuart Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind:

     The term Causation, as the author observes, signifies causingness and causedness taken together, but I do not see on what ground he asserts that it connotes present time.