Consensual vs Reciprocal - What's the difference?
consensual | reciprocal |
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.
Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
* Shakespeare
Mutually interchangeable.
* I. Watts
(grammar) Reflexive; applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to pronouns that express mutual action.
(math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
contrary or opposite
(arithmetic) Of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
As adjectives the difference between consensual and reciprocal
is that consensual is with permission, with consensus, without coercion while reciprocal is of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.As a noun reciprocal is
(arithmetic) of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.consensual
English
Alternative forms
* con-sensualAdjective
(en adjective)- a consensual contract
- consensual motions
Antonyms
* non-consensualreciprocal
English
Adjective
(-)- reciprocal''' love; '''reciprocal duties
- Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.
- These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
Synonyms
* mutual, two-way * contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- 0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.