nonconsensual

adjective

non·​con·​sen·​su·​al ˌnän-kən-ˈsen(t)-sh(ə-)wəl 

-shəl, 

-shü-əl

: not agreed to by one or more of the people involved : not consensual

nonconsensual sex

nonconsensually adverb

… I pointed out that it's always painful and infuriating when people are nonconsensually manipulated into humiliating themselves to make someone else's point …

—Carol Queen

Examples of nonconsensual in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That follows a controversy over use of Grok's feature on X to create nonconsensual explicit photos of real women. —Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026

Government response— The fact that what was once a mainstream social media platform is now perhaps the biggest digital spreader of nonconsensual explicit imagery has put Musk in the crosshairs of governments across the world. —Andrew R. Chow, Time, 9 Jan. 2026

Three Democratic senators urged Apple and Google to remove Elon Musk’s apps X and Grok from their app stores Thursday evening after xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tool had been used to flood X with sexualized nonconsensual images of real people. —Kevin Collier, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026

Watchdog groups warned last summer in a letter to state and federal authorities about the growing potential for Grok to create nonconsensual intimate images. —Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 7 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nonconsensual

• consensual

Legal Definition

nonconsensual

adjective

non·​con·​sen·​su·​al

ˌnän-kən-ˈsen-chə-wəl

: not involving consent : not consented to