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consensual

  • /kənˈsɛnʃuəl/

adjective more consensual · most consensual · consentual · con-sensual

  1. With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting. He'd operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix.
  2. Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties. a consensual contract
  3. Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition. consensual motions
  4. Contralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced. direct and consensual pupillary reflexes produce bilateral constriction from a unilateral stimulus

Opposite: non-consensual

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: accordant, consent, conciliatory, agreed, unanimous, consistent, reconciliatory, conventional, coherent, voluntary, concerted, common-law, contractual, amicable, consensus, friendly

adjective

Opposite: non-consensual

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adj With consensus

Españolconsensual
Portuguêsconsensual
Françaisconsensuel
Deutscheinvernehmlich
Italianoconsensuale
Ελληνικάσυναινετικός synainetikós
Românăconsensual
Русскийсогласо́ванный soglasóvannyj, консенсуа́льный konsensuálʹnyj, консе́нсусный konsénsusnyj
العربيةتوافقي

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@misc{consensual_2026,
  title = {consensual},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/consensual},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}