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consensual

/kənˈsɛnʃuəl/

consensual adjective: with permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.

Adjective

consensual (comparative more consensual, superlative most consensual)

  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.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 5
    • consensual sex
  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
    1. Contralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced.
      • direct and consensual pupillary reflexes produce bilateral constriction from a unilateral stimulus

consensual meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

consensual in Tamil

உடனிணக்கத்துக்குரிய, ஒத்திசைவான

consensual in Urdu

ہم ہم اضطراری

consensual in Bengali

সম্মতিক্রমী

consensual in Arabic

With consensus
توافقي

Examples of consensual in a sentence

  • It was a high fidelity conversation—a kind of local and consensual inception.
  • The consensual molestation of an ingénue by means of surveillance and recording equipment.
  • The purpose of the website, according to Ashford, is to "explain my ideal of consensual childlove".

All 17 example sentences with consensual

Antonyms of consensual

Forms of consensual

comparativemore consensual
superlativemost consensual
alternative formconsentual
alternative formcon-sensual

Origin of consensual

From consensus + -ual.

Words formed from consensual

Phrases with consensual

Questions about consensual

What does consensual mean?
Consensual means with permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.
What is consensual in Tamil?
Consensual in Tamil is உடனிணக்கத்துக்குரிய, ஒத்திசைவான. See Consensual meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is consensual?
Consensual is an adjective.
How do you pronounce consensual?
Consensual is pronounced /kənˈsɛnʃuəl/.

Words near consensual in the dictionary

  1. consensed
  2. consenses
  3. consensing
  4. consension
  5. consensions
  6. consensual
  7. consensual crime
  8. consensual crimes
  9. consensual non-consent
  10. consensualisation
  11. consensualisations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: consensual (page history and authors); consensual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consensual (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consensual (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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