volcel

noun
/ˈvɒlsɛl/UK/ˈvɑlsɛl/US

Etymology

From voluntary + -cel.

  1. derived from voluntārius
  2. derived from volontaire
  3. inherited from voluntarie
  4. suffixed as volcel — “voluntary + cel

Definitions

  1. A person who is voluntarily celibate, i.e., who chooses to avoid sexual activity with…

    A person who is voluntarily celibate, i.e., who chooses to avoid sexual activity with other people.

    • All of these subsets have a shared loathing of “volcels,” otherwise known as voluntary celibates.
    • If you are good-looking, or not ugly enough, you are a volcel, a voluntary celibate.
    • One commenter explained he was “a tiny bit of a volcel” since he did not like women from his country because of their personalities.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for volcel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA