consensual
adj/kənˈsɛnʃuəl/
Etymology From consensus + -ual.
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
Law Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
- a consensual contract
3
Biology, Natural sciences Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.
- consensual motions
4
Biology, Natural sciences Contralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced.
- direct and consensual pupillary reflexes produce bilateral constriction from a unilateral stimulus
- Antonyms
- non-consensual
- Derived terms
- consensual crime, consensualism, consensualist, consensuality, consensualize, consensually, consensualness, consensual non-consent, consensual reflex, consentual, nonconsensuality, semiconsensual, unconsensual