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Meaning of "consenting adult" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSENTING ADULT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSENTING ADULT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Consenting adult is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONSENTING ADULT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Informed consent

Informed consent is a process for getting permission before conducting a healthcare intervention on a person. A health care provider may ask a patient to consent to receive therapy before providing it, or a clinical researcher may ask a research participant before enrolling that person into a clinical trial. Informed consent is collected according to guidelines from the fields of medical ethics and research ethics. An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and future consequences of an action. In order to give informed consent, the individual concerned must have adequate reasoning faculties and be in possession of all relevant facts at the time consent is given. Impairments to reasoning and judgment which may make it impossible for someone to give informed consent include such factors as basic intellectual or emotional immaturity, high levels of stress such as PTSD or a severe intellectual disability, severe mental illness, intoxication, severe sleep deprivation, Alzheimer's disease, or being in a coma. Some acts can take place because of a lack of informed consent.

Definition of consenting adult in the English dictionary

The definition of consenting adult in the dictionary is a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSENTING ADULT

consenescence
consenescency
consension
consensual
consensually
consensus
consensus sequence
consent
consent form
consentaneity
consentaneous
consentaneously
consentaneousness
consenter
consentience
consentient
consenting
consentingly
consequence
consequences

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSENTING ADULT

adult
assault
by default
consult
cult
default
difficult
fault
indult
insult
kidult
nonadult
preadult
result
sexual assault
subadult
the pole vault
to a fault
unadult
vault

Synonyms and antonyms of consenting adult in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «consenting adult» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSENTING ADULT

Find out the translation of consenting adult to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of consenting adult from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «consenting adult» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

成人同意
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

consintiendo adultos
570 millions of speakers

English

consenting adult
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सहमति वयस्क
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

توافق الكبار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

согласие взрослых
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

consentindo adulto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সম্মতি প্রাপ্ত বয়স্ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adultes consentants
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersetuju untuk dewasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zustimmenden Erwachsenen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同意成人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동의 성인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Consenting adult
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người lớn cho phép
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வயது முதிர்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सन्मानजनक प्रौढ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Izin verilen yetişkin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

adulto consenziente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zgodę dorosłych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

згода дорослих
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

consimțit adult
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συναινούντων ενηλίκων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toestem volwassene
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

samtyckande vuxen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

samtykkende voksne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of consenting adult

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSENTING ADULT»

The term «consenting adult» is normally little used and occupies the 120.673 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSENTING ADULT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «consenting adult» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «consenting adult» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about consenting adult

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSENTING ADULT»

Discover the use of consenting adult in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to consenting adult and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Consenting Adult
At a time when homosexuality is regarded as a mental illness, she struggles with how best to be a parent to a gay son—and how to protect her family from the prejudices of the era.Elegant and subtly drawn, Consenting Adult is a stunning ...
Laura Z. Hobson, 2011
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Consenting Adult Action Network
The Consenting Adult Action Network (CAAN) is a grassroots network of individuals in the United Kingdom that was formed in 2008 to protest and oppose laws restricting activities between consenting adults, most notably the criminalisation of ...
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Internet Indecency: Hearing Before the Committee on ...
We believe that "consenting adult" means just that, "consenting adult . . .", not " consenting juvenile." We were not surprised that the United States Supreme Court last year overturned an overly broad, vague and ambiguous section of the  ...
John McCain, 1998
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Consenting Adult Action Network
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
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Sexual Harassment on College Campuses: Abusing the Ivory Power
An opposing point of view is held by Dziech and Weiner (1990), who assert that it is a myth that a student participant in a faculty-student sexual relationship is a consenting adult. If a professor becomes involved with a student, his standard ...
Michele A. Paludi, 1996
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Sociolegal Control of Homosexuality: A Multi-Nation Comparison
The statistics for prosecutions for sodomy [Republic of S Africa (1980—1990)]and the circumstances ofthe consenting adult conduct reported in S v. H [1993 (2) S 545 (C)] bring these contentions into question. an approach was criticized by two  ...
Donald J. West, Richard Green, 1997
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Rehabilitating Criminal Sexual Psychopaths: Legislative ...
... Caringella-MacDonald, 1985, 1988; Sigler & Haygood, 1987); some proscribed not only "the unspeakable crime against nature," even between consenting adult homosexuals, but also a variety of behaviors by then commonplace between ...
Nathaniel J. Pallone, 1990
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Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...
The New Republic called it "slick, genteel soap opera" (34). Consenting Adult, a novel timely in its subject matter, received a rave review from Martin Duberman in the New York Times. He praised Hobson's "courage" and called on her readers ...
Joel Shatzky, Michael Taub, 1997
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Physician-Assisted Suicide
Consenting adult killing, like consenting adult slavery or degradation, is a strange route to human dignity. There is another problem as well. If doctors, once sanctioned to carry out euthanasia or PAS, are to be themselves responsible moral ...
Robert F. Weir, 1997
10
A Beautiful Mind
6. Letter from John Nash to Arthur Mattuck, 1.15.73. In a reference to his 1954 arrest, Nash named the arresting officer. 7. Best, interview. 8. Ibid. 9. DOD Directive 52206, 10. Best, interview. 11. "The Consenting Adult Homosexual and the Law: ...
Sylvia Nasar, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSENTING ADULT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term consenting adult is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Vampires' keep doctors in the dark for fear of stereotyping: study
That's apparently the chief reason they find a consenting adult willing to allow them to use a scalpel to make a tiny incision in the chest area so ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
2
Fredrik deBoer Says Polygamy Should Be Next
The academic and writer maintains that the Supreme Court's decision ought to apply to all consenting adult relationships, regardless of sexual ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
3
Community and business need to ask hard questions about …
While purchases might seem to affect only that consenting adult, the damage is far-reaching. It extends to the harms caused through ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
4
More conservatives explain that marriage isn't supposed to be about …
... Anderson continued, “there's a certain logic to redefining it to include same-sex couples: if it's just about consenting adult romance, why not?”. «Raw Story, Jul 15»
5
Mailbag: We don't need government approval
Clearly, a future battlefield has been defined given this “fundamental right” does not include every consenting adult. And what will happen to ... «Albany Democrat Herald, Jul 15»
6
Published on Jul 5, 2015, 8:24 pm AST
Those who advance the idea of “marriage” between two consenting adult homosexuals have incorporated the notion of “equality” and support ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
7
How the SSM “anti-polygamy” movement turned into Animal Farm
Why NOT polygamy? As long as everyone involved is a legal, consenting adult, why the hell would you care what they're doing? Guess what? «Quincy Journal, Jul 15»
8
Miley Cyrus: Stella is the One
Miley spoke openly about her sexuality in her recent Paper magazine interview, saying she was "down" with dating any consenting adult. «TV3.ie, Jul 15»
9
Marriage is civil contract of commitment: Letter
The purpose of marriage is to publicly profess a commitment to another consenting adult through a civil contract as recognized by the state. «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jul 15»
10
A Round of Applause for Marc Jacobs's Nude Instagram Response
Besides, last time I checked, Jacobs, an openly gay, single and consenting adult who should be able to send sexy pics to whomever he ... «Papermag, Jul 15»

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