Consensual means agreed to willingly by everybody involved. Consensual sex, a consensual agreement, fully consensual.
The willingness has to be real rather than assumed, which is why the word does so much work in law: consent given under pressure or without capacity is no consent at all. In politics it means governing by agreement rather than by imposition.
1adjectiveconsensualAgreed to willingly by everybody involved.
“Their split was friendly and consensual, with no lawyers involved.”
consensual is a quality.
Proto-Indo-European
*sent-
Latin
cōnsēnsus — agreement, accordance, unanimity
English
consensus
English, today
consensual
Built from
From consensus + -ual. consensus Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA