Consensual vs Conformity - What's the difference?
consensual | conformity |
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.
State of things being similar or identical.
A point of resemblance; a similarity.
State of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
As an adjective consensual
is with permission, with consensus, without coercion.As a noun conformity is
state of things being similar or identical.consensual
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Alternative forms
* con-sensualAdjective
(en adjective)- a consensual contract
- consensual motions
Antonyms
* non-consensualconformity
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Noun
- How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -