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Terms vs Incel - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and incel

is that terms is while incel is (label) a person who is celibate against their wishes.

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    incel

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  • (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, page 90:
    • Though, involuntary celibates (or incels ) shouldn't try to rationalize a dateless season or pass off sexual awkwardness as virtue;
  • * 2009 , Luisa Dillner, Love by Numbers: The Hidden Facts Behind Everyone's Relationships , Profile Books (2009), ISBN 9781846680731, 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).
  • * 2009 , Talmer Shockley, The Love-Shy Survival Guide , Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2009), ISBN 9781843108979, 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.