consensual

comparative more consensual · superlative most consensual · alternative consentual · alternative con-sensual

1. With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.

   consensual sex

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   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

2. lawExisting, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.

   a consensual contract

3. biologyExcited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.

   consensual motions

   1. biologyContralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced.

      direct and consensual pupillary reflexes produce bilateral constriction from a unilateral stimulus