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  "id": "good.moral",
  "term": "good",
  "sense": "moral",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "good",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "that which helps and is more than does not help",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "help.assistance",
      "polite.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "they together help others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "positive value",
      "desirability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act mandated ramps and elevators in public buildings, enabling access for wheelchair users.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Toyota's 1970s 'just-in-time' production system reduced waste by delivering parts only as needed on assembly lines.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel, maintained by thousands of developers since 1991, powers over 90% of the world's cloud servers.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "best.quality",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bad.moral",
    "beauty.aesthetic",
    "best.quality",
    "car.transport",
    "comparative.comparative",
    "fun.leisure",
    "great.size",
    "love.emotional",
    "nice.polite",
    "value.worth"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "good",
    "goods"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-good.moral"
}