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consensual
[ kuhn-sen-shoo-uhl ]
adjective
- formed or existing by consent:
a consensual lien.
- having been actively agreed to by all parties involved:
consensual touching
- Physiology. (of an action) involuntarily correlative with a voluntary action, as the contraction of the iris when the eye is opened.
consensual
/ kənˈsɛnsjʊəl /
adjective
- law (of a contract, agreement, etc) existing by consent
- law (of a sexual activity) performed with the consent of all parties involved
- (of certain reflex actions of a part of the body) responding to stimulation of another part
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Derived Forms
- conˈsensually, adverb
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Other Words From
- con·sen·su·al·ly adverb
- non·con·sen·su·al adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of consensual1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of consensual1
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Example Sentences
He had invited a 19-year-old drifter named Arnold Murray to his house and they had had consensual sex.
Consensual sex between males in private should be decriminalized.
After she ended a 6-month-long consensual affair with Cosby, she claims he drugged her backstage before a performance in Denver.
He admitted having sex with her, but insisted it was consensual.
Haidak was told to have no contact with Gibney, but they texted and also engaged in consensual sex, according to the suit.
But the other Indian bishops have no position recognized by the State and no jurisdiction, except consensual.
A consensual ecclesiastical jurisdiction is thus created, which has to this extent temporal sanction.
We now reach the fourth class, or Consensual Contracts, the most interesting and important of all.
For, in truth, the peculiarity of these Consensual Contracts is that no formalities, are required to create them out of the Pact.
But the term Consensual merely indicates that the Obligation is here annexed at once to the Consensus.
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