Incelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A metathetic alteration of Proto-Germanic *-ikīna (diminutive suffix) + *-il- (diminutive suffix).

Alternately, from Proto-Germanic *-ingilą, *-ingilaz.

発音

• IPA: /in.kel/, [iŋ.kel]

接尾辞

-incel n

1. diminutive noun suffix

   sċipincel ― miniature ship

   hūsincel ― habitation, dwelling

   hæftincel ― slave [lit. "catchling", "little captive"]

   stānincel ― little stone

   liþincel ― little joint

   *weargincel ― butcher-bird, wariangle

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

同意語

• (diminutive): -oc, -en, -ing, -ling, -ċin/-ċen

派生語

語源

Blend of involuntary +‎ celibate. Coined by "Alana" in 1997 on an online forum (originally as invcel). Came to widespread usage in the mid-2010s, chiefly online, but now more widespread.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɪnˌsɛl/
• 韻: -ɪnsɛl

名詞

incel (countable and uncountable, plural incels)

1. A member of an online subculture of people (mostly men) who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one.
   • 2004, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, Ten Speed Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 90:

     Though, involuntary celibates (or incels) shouldn't try to rationalize a dateless season or pass off sexual awkwardness as virtue; […]

   • 2017 November 9, Christine Hauser, “Reddit Bans ‘Incel’ Group for Inciting Violence Against Women”, in The New York Times‎:

     It is not clear when the term incels was coined, but the link between misogyny and violence against women has emerged on sites where incel communities gather.

   • 2018 May 15, Jia Tolentino, “The Rage of the Incels”, in The New Yorker‎:

     The incel ideology has already inspired the murders of at least sixteen people. Elliot Rodger, in 2014, in Isla Vista, California, killed six and injured fourteen in an attempt to instigate a “War on Women” for “depriving me of sex.”

   • 2018 April 25, Alex Hern, Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?, The Guardian:
   • 2023 January, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue‎, pages 5-6:

     The framing of inceldom as an “adverse life circumstance”, repeated across the Wiki, lends credibility to the framing used by incels who wish to dissociate themselves from the common descriptions of incels as a ‘movement’, ‘ideology’ or ‘community’. […] This report finds that the Wiki is a site of attempts to divorce the concept of being an incel from believing in the blackpill, and we argue that this is intended as a means of both expanding the category of incels to make them politically relevant, and dissociating the label ‘incel’ from violent misogyny.

   • 2023 March 16, AJ Willingham, “What does the term ‘incel’ mean?”, in CNN‎:

     Online forums dedicated to incel culture are a reliable way to see how the term evolved and is used today. A subreddit, or forum on Reddit, called r/incels was one of the most visible meeting places for self-identified incels until it was banned by Reddit in 2017 for “violent content.”

2. (rare) An individual who is not sexually active despite having such a desire.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:incel

   Antonym: volcel

   Hyponyms: AFChick, femcel

   • 2009, Luisa Dillner, Love by Numbers: The Hidden Facts Behind Everyone's Relationships, Profile Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 153:

     Another study by Donnelly of seventy-seven incels in marriages or long-term relationships in the Journal of Marriage and Family used a web-based questionnaire to ask people why they stayed in their sexless relationships (defined in this case as no sex for six months).

3. (derogatory) A misogynistic man, with the implication that his misogyny makes him undesirable to potential partners, thus limiting his romantic and/or sexual prospects.
4. (uncountable, seduction community, informal) "Involuntary celibacy": the state of being not sexually active despite wishing to be.

   Synonyms: incelibacy, love-shyness, fuckstration, AFCdom, AFCness

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

使用する際の注意点

The main difference between an incel (sense 1) and a man who simply does not have a romantic partner (sense 2) seems to lie in the identification with the online subculture.

In the strict sense, 'involuntary celibate' is synonymous with sense 2, but 'incel' usually refers to the more narrowly defined online community.

等位語

• Chad
• Stacy
• tyrone
• Trixie

派生語

形容詞

incel (not comparable)

1. (seduction community) Not having sexual relations despite wishing to.

   Hypernym: love-shy

   • 2001 May 30, Gra - gra, “I love you!”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

     People who are 'incel' are often suspected as being gay. It's annoying.

参考

• MGTOW (neologism)
• nice guy syndrome
• orbiter

参照

アナグラム

• -cline, Cline, cline, incle