volcel
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of voluntary celibate by analogy with incel; also voluntary -cel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]volcel (plural volcels)
- (neologism) A person who is voluntarily celibate, i.e., who chooses to avoid sexual activity with other people.
- 2018 October 30, Judah Weinerman, “Meet incels, the internet's resident anti-women hate brigades”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 11:
- All of these subsets have a shared loathing of “volcels,” otherwise known as voluntary celibates.
- 2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:
- If you are good-looking, or not ugly enough, you are a volcel, a voluntary celibate.
- 2020, December Maxwell, Sarah R. Robinson, Jessica R. Williams, Craig Keaton, “'A Short Story of a Lonely Guy': A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Involuntary Celibacy Using Reddit”, in Sexuality & Culture:
- One commenter explained he was “a tiny bit of a volcel” since he did not like women from his country because of their personalities.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:volcel.