Congenial vs Consensual - What's the difference?
congenial | consensual |
Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
Friendly or sociable.
Suitable to one's needs.
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato'', in ''Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92 , page 453-468:
With permission, with consensus, without coercion.
(legal) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
(biology) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.
As adjectives the difference between congenial and consensual
is that congenial is having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests while consensual is with permission, with consensus, without coercion.congenial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
- ''What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?
Anagrams
*consensual
English
Alternative forms
* con-sensualAdjective
(en adjective)- a consensual contract
- consensual motions
