Incel vs Virgin - What's the difference?
incel | virgin |
(label) A person who is celibate against their wishes.
* 2004 , Phineas Mollod & Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers , Ten Speed Press (2004), ISBN 1580086012,
* 2009 , Luisa Dillner, Love by Numbers: The Hidden Facts Behind Everyone's Relationships , Profile Books (2009), ISBN 9781846680731,
* 2009 , Talmer Shockley, The Love-Shy Survival Guide , Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2009), ISBN 9781843108979,
A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
(informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Milton
* 1913 , (DH Lawrence), Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 294:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 314:
Of a physical object, untouched.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Shakespeare
Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
As nouns the difference between incel and virgin
is that incel is a person who is celibate against their wishes while virgin is a person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.As an adjective virgin is
in a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.As a proper noun Virgin is
mary, the mother of Jesus.incel
English
Noun
(en noun)page 90:
- Though, involuntary celibates (or incels ) shouldn't try to rationalize a dateless season or pass off sexual awkwardness as virtue;
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).
page 15:
- People generally find it difficult to relate to love-shys and incels and wrongly assume we could obtain romance if we tried harder or lowered our standards.
virgin
English
(wikipedia virgin)Noun
(en noun)- I've never eaten tofu before – you could say I'm a tofu virgin .
Synonyms
* (person who has never had sexual intercourse) maiden (dated; used of a woman only''), unicorn bait (qualifier), virgo intacta (''medical term; used of a woman only ), vestalAdjective
(-)- Innocence and virgin modesty / That would be wooed, and unsought be won.
- He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin , the sex instinct that Miriam had over refined for so long now grew particularly strong.
- Helvidius took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin .
- the white cold virgin snow upon my heart
- virgin''' prairie'', ''a '''virgin ecosystem'', ''virgin forest
- The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.
- a virgin daiquiri
