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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesインセル
Pronunciation / Transliteration: inseru
"インターネット上のインセル文化について専門家が分析している。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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A member of an online subculture of people who consider themselves unable to attract romantic or sexual partners despite desiring to do so, often associated with views of hostility and resentment toward sexually active people.
"Online radicalization within certain forums has turned the incel movement into a subject of significant sociological study."
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Relating to or characteristic of incels or their subculture.
"He spent hours browsing incel message boards and absorbing extremist ideologies."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term is a portmanteau coined in the late 1990s from the phrase 'involuntary celibate', originally created by a college student known only as Alana to build an inclusive community for lonely individuals. Over the subsequent decades, the meaning shifted significantly in popular culture and online subcultures to refer predominantly to members of an online male supremacist movement characterized by resentment toward women and sexually active people.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Incel" is said worldwide
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incel
Transliteration: ɛ̃.sɛl
"Le phénomène des incels est de plus en plus étudié par les sociologues."
Incel
Transliteration: ˈɪnt͡sɛl
"Viele Incels vernetzen sich über diskrete Online-Foren."
incel
Transliteration: inˈtʃɛl
"La sottocultura incel si è diffusa rapidamente sul web."
incel
Transliteration: inˈsel
"El extremismo en comunidades incel preocupa a las autoridades."
incel
Transliteration: ĩˈsɛw
"O termo incel refere-se a celibatários involuntários."
अनिच्छुक ब्रह्मचारी
Transliteration: anichchuk brahmachari
"इंसल संस्कृति आज के इंटरनेट युग में एक नया विषय है।"
无环者
Transliteration: wú huán zhě
"网络上的无环者群体引发了许多社会讨论。"
인셀
Transliteration: insel
"인셀 커뮤니티는 최근 심각한 사회적 문제로 대두되고 있습니다."
インセル
Transliteration: inseru
"インターネット上のインセル文化について専門家が分析している。"
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