decel

Sense 2 is influenced by or derived via blend with incel.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.sɛl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.sɛl/
• Rhymes: -iːsɛl
• Hyphenation: de‧cel

decel (countable and uncountable, plural decels)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of deceleration.

   Antonym: e/acc

   • [2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Mountainhead plays out less like a drama between four tenuously connected, very rich friends, and more like a random word generator of tech and finance bro jargon – decel (deceleration, as in AI), p(doom) (the probability of an AI apocalypse), first principles.

     (Can we archive this URL?)]

3. (colloquial) Synonym of decelerationist.

   Antonym: e/acc

   • 2023 November 20, Nitish Pahwa, “What the Heck Just Happened at OpenAI??”, in Slate‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”).

     (Can we archive this URL?)