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consentual

consentual is the alternative spelling of consensual.

Meaning of consensual

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
  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

Origin of consentual

Alteration of consensual, as though equivalent to consent + -ual.

Words formed from consentual

Questions about consentual

What is consentual the alternative spelling of?
Consentual is the alternative spelling of consensual.

Words near consentual in the dictionary

  1. consentless
  2. consentment
  3. consentor
  4. consentors
  5. consents
  6. consentual
  7. consentually
  8. consequate
  9. consequated
  10. consequates
  11. consequating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: consentual (page history and authors); consensual (page history and authors). 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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