{
  "id": "care.emotional",
  "term": "care",
  "sense": "emotional",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "people help others when they have a need",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "need.psychological",
      "help.assistance",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "the need and the help together create a caring stance",
    "novel_properties": [
      "caring stance",
      "mutual recognition",
      "emotional responsiveness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, spontaneous volunteer networks in Port-au-Prince provided food and first aid to trapped survivors.",
      "domain": "disaster-response"
    },
    {
      "text": "Nurse bees feed larvae royal jelly for the first three days of life, ensuring their development into queens if selected.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Debian GNU/Linux project maintains security updates for oldstable releases up to two years after end-of-life.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "help.assistance",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "need.psychological",
      "note": "enables this stance",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "friend.social",
    "garden.planting",
    "love.emotional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "care",
    "cared",
    "cares",
    "caring"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "definition was correct; added missing components others.distinct-entities and people.social to align record with definition"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-care.emotional"
}