ascension

CEFRC2

/əˈsɛnʃən/

noun

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noun
The act of rising or moving to a higher position.
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noun
Extra detail
A transcendence of the material world; a transition to a higher form, state, or plane of existence.

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Extra meanings

That which rises, as from distillation.
The act of ascending; an ascent.
The act or process of ceasing to be an incel, generally by losing one's virginity/having sex, or entering a romantic relationship.

In context

We celebrated the ascension of the new leader to the throne.
Furthermore, the concept of "ascension" highlights incels' fixation on intimate relationships as the ultimate source of social fulfillment.
The ascension of the hot-air balloon gave us a better view.

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vaporous ascensions from the stomach
1683, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture”, in Certain Miscellany Tracts
It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part.
2019 January 7, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers” (6:12 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2023
In contrast to red pilled ascension thinking, our sample on r/IncelExit urged users to exit inceldom by engaging those strategies for the sake of personal wellbeing and new social capital.
2023, Ruxandra Mihaela Gheorghe, David Yuzva Clement, “'It's time to put the copes down and get to work’: a qualitative study of incel exit strategies on r/IncelExit”, in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, number 1

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From Middle English ascencioun, from Old French ascension, from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem (“ascent”).