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femcelcore

femcelcore noun: a melancholic aesthetic associated (often ironically) with the femcel movement.

Noun

femcelcore (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) A melancholic aesthetic associated (often ironically) with the femcel movement.
    • To me, the femcelcore content is reminiscent of the sad-girl Tumblr aesthetic from 2014 just rebranded.2022 November 18, Hannah Bentley, “Unpicking The 'Femcelcore' Trend”, in Her Campus
    • Similarly, the iteration of ‘femcelcore’ on TikTok that we analyse, unlike the ‘traditional’ femcel, appears to be sarcastic, ironic and funny, and the use of memes only underscores this affective orientation: ‘Femcels are screaming into the void, but laughing while they do so’ (Bergeron-Stokes...2024, Jacob Johanssen, Jilly Boyce Kay, “From femcels to 'femcelcore': Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies

Origin of femcelcore

From femcel + -core.

Questions about femcelcore

What does femcelcore mean?
Femcelcore means a melancholic aesthetic associated (often ironically) with the femcel movement.
What part of speech is femcelcore?
Femcelcore is a noun.

Words near femcelcore in the dictionary

  1. fembys
  2. femcare
  3. femcee
  4. femcees
  5. femcel
  6. femcelcore
  7. femceldom
  8. femceldoms
  9. femcels
  10. femcirc
  11. femcock

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