Citations:nearcel

Noun: "(incel slang) a person who is romantically unsuccessful but not to the extent they are involuntarily celibate"

 * 2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 58:
 * Nearcels are those who are “romantically unsuccessful, but not adequately enough to qualify as an incel or truecel; a portmanteau of "nearly" and "incel"” ("Incel forums term glossary," 2020).