consensual

• con-sensual

From consensus + -ual.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛnʃuəl/

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consensual (comparative more consensual, superlative most consensual)

1. With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.
   • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 5:

     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.

   consensual sex

2. (law) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.

   a consensual contract

3. (biology) 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

• non-consensual

From consenso +‎ -ual.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: con‧sen‧su‧al

consensual m or f (plural consensuais)

1. consensual

• “consensual”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “consensual”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French consensuel. By surface analysis, consens +‎ -ual.

consensual m or n (feminine singular consensuală, masculine plural consensuali, feminine/neuter plural consensuale)

1. consensual

• IPA^(key): /konsenˈswal/ [kõn.sẽnˈswal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: con‧sen‧sual

consensual m or f (masculine and feminine plural consensuales)

1. consensual

• “consensual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025