consensual
See also: con-sensual
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈsɛnʃuəl/
Adjective
consensual (comparative more consensual, superlative most consensual)
- 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.
- (law) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
- a consensual contract
- (biology) 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
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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sent- (feel) (0 c, 18 e)
Translations
With consensus
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French consensuel. By surface analysis, consens + -ual.
Adjective
consensual m or n (feminine singular consensuală, masculine plural consensuali, feminine and neuter plural consensuale)
Declension
Declension of consensual
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | consensual | consensuală | consensuali | consensuale | ||
definite | consensualul | consensuala | consensualii | consensualele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | consensual | consensuale | consensuali | consensuale | ||
definite | consensualului | consensualei | consensualilor | consensualelor |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konsenˈswal/ [kõn.sẽnˈswal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: con‧sen‧sual
Derived terms
Further reading
- “consensual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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