Consensual

/kənˈsɛnʃuəl/ · adjective

Meaning

With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting..

Definitions by Sense

1. With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.
2. (law) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
3. (biology) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.

Example Sentences

consensual sex

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.

a consensual contract

consensual motions

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Word Forms

• more consensual
• most consensual
• con-sensual

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