{
  "id": "fun.leisure",
  "term": "fun",
  "sense": "leisure",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "fun",
  "domain": "leisure",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "play that makes people experience good",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "play.game",
      "good.moral",
      "experience.cognitive",
      "make.verb",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "When play occurs together with a sense of good, it creates a pleasurable experience.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared enjoyment",
      "non-instrumental engagement",
      "positive affect among participants"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The board game 'Catan' sold over 40 million copies by 2021, creating structured play where resource trading leads to emergent social dynamics.",
      "domain": "games"
    },
    {
      "text": "Disneyland Paris hosted 14.4 million visitors in 2023, sustaining engineered leisure experiences blending narrative, movement, and sensory engagement.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 'Stardew Valley' farming simulation, released in 2016, generated over $80 million by 2022 through player-driven routines that mimic meaningful work without real-world stakes.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "recreation.leisure",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "fun",
    "funs"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fun.leisure"
}