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Consensual

//kənˈsɛnʃuəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

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

    "a consensual contract"

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

    "consensual motions"

  4. 4
    Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.; Contralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced.

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    existing by consent wordnet

Etymology

From consensus + -ual.

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