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black pilling

black pilling is the present participle and gerund of black pill.

Meaning of black pill

Verb

black pill (third-person singular simple present black pills, present participle black pilling, simple past and past participle black pilled)

  1. (transitive) To cause another to adopt a nihilistic philosophy.
    • And finally, to be 'black-pilled' is to take pleasure in the end of existence, to philosophise from a perspective of our technological demise, and to embrace the singular bleakness of a meaningless world.2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?, unnumbered page
  2. (incel slang) To accept that genetics and appearance (as defined by LMS and PSL theory) determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile.
    • Incels are a danger to western society, because if we manage to blackpill more low value men, it could destroy this rotten civilization in its current form.2020, anonymous, quoted in Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of...

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Questions about black pilling

What is black pilling the present participle and gerund of?
Black pilling is the present participle and gerund of black pill.

Words near black pilling in the dictionary

  1. black piedra
  2. black pill
  3. black pilled
  4. black piller
  5. black pillers
  6. black pilling
  7. black pills
  8. black pine
  9. black pines
  10. black pitohui
  11. Black Plague

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