consensual

Happening with the freely given permission of everyone involved.

• Their relationship was consensual.
• Both adults described the encounter as consensual.
• Consensual sex requires each person to agree freely.

Similar words: voluntary

Opposites: forced, nonconsensual

Common phrases: consensual sex, consensual relationship, consensual activity

Created or existing because all the people or groups involved agree.

• They reached a consensual agreement.
• The contract was consensual, with both parties freely agreeing.
• A consensual decision kept the partnership together.

Similar words: agreed, mutually agreed

Common phrases: consensual contract, consensual agreement, consensual decision

Happening automatically in response to a feeling or another body movement, without a conscious decision.

• The doctor tested the consensual reflex.
• Light in one eye caused a consensual response in the other.
• The examination showed a normal consensual contraction of the opposite pupil.

Similar words: reflex, involuntary

Opposites: voluntary

Common phrases: consensual reflex, consensual response, consensual movement

Happening on one side of the body when the other side is stimulated.

• The doctor checked the consensual reflex.
• Light in the left eye caused consensual constriction in the right.
• The examination revealed a weak consensual response.

Common phrases: consensual reflex, consensual response, consensual constriction