[f. CASUAL + -ISM.] a. A state of things in which chance reigns. b. The doctrine that all things exist or happen by chance.
1873. Contemp. Rev., XXI. 187. The most arbitrary casualism in place of the orderliness of law.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., III. 1949. From infidelity and scepticism sprung materialism … sensualism, and casualism.
