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[[Incel]], is an [[Donnelly Study#Incel is Now a Valid Academic Sociological Term|academic sociological term]] that is short for and means, ''''involuntary celibacy'''', a life circumstance.  Specifically, it is the life circumstance of, "single without choosing to be so".  And so it is '''not''' a community, subculture, organized group, movement, or a philosophy.  Individual philosophies like the [[blackpill]] or subcultures like [[4chan]] culture emerge on some, but not all, forums dedicated to involuntary celibates and go in and out of fashion.  [[Inceldom]] was first academically recognized as a sociological phenomenon by the [[Donnelly Study]].  '''The [[Donnelly Study]] defined incels as all adults who want to have a willing sexual partner of the gender that they are attracted to, but cannot find one for six months or more'''.  This definition, however, has too many holes/loose-ends, and for the purposes of this wiki an incel is either someone who would be rejected by the vast majority of the single members of the gender/s they are attracted to if they tried or someone who is not normally asexual but whose mental processes prevent them from approaching people, resulting in celibacy for a period of years.  [[Ton den Boon|The first lexicographer to define "incel"]], defined it as a gender-neutral life cirumstance rather than a subculture. Its unabbreviated form was coined in 1739 by [[Antoine Banier]] in his book on ancient Greek mythology.  Inceldom overlaps but is distinct from '[[sexual frustration]]', in that an involuntary celibate may simply accept their [[incelibacy]] and not feel bad about it.