consensual
/kənˈsɛnʃuəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "a consensual contract"
- "consensual motions"
- "direct and consensual pupillary reflexes produce bilateral constriction from a unilateral stimulus"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more consensual (comparative)
most consensual (superlative)
consentual (alternative)
con-sensual (alternative)