consentual
consentual is the alternative spelling of consensual.
Meaning of consensual
Adjective
consensual (comparative more consensual, superlative most consensual)
- 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
- Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
- a consensual contract
- Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.
- consensual motions
- 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
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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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