{
  "id": "friendly.social",
  "term": "friendly",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "daily_interaction",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "act polite and help others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "polite.social",
      "help.assistance",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "act.deed"
    ],
    "interaction": "Politeness and assistance to others together create a warm, cooperative attitude toward others.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "cooperative attitude",
      "warm engagement",
      "social initiative"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The staff at Tokyo's Narita Airport greet arriving passengers with bow and offer directions in multiple languages.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel's mailing list moderators respond to new contributors' patches with clear suggestions and encouragement.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Residents of Curitiba, Brazil, regularly give free bus rides to stranded tourists during heavy rains.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "polite.social",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "friendly is a kind of politeness"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "friendlier",
    "friendliest",
    "friendly"
  ],
  "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": "Added missing 'act.deed' to components since the definition relies on the concept of performing an action, which was omitted in the original record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-friendly.social"
}