{
  "id": "love.emotional",
  "term": "love",
  "sense": "emotional",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "love.emotional",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a care that persists between people and is good",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "care.emotional",
      "persist.continue",
      "need.psychological",
      "good.moral",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "care and need persist together between people and make good",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual enduring regard",
      "morally valenced bond",
      "shared emotional continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In Kibbutz Nahal Oz, members shared childcare and meals for decades despite regional conflicts.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fred Rogers spoke to each viewer of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' as a unique person for 33 years.",
      "domain": "media"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, volunteers in Ishinomaki delivered food to isolated elders daily for months.",
      "domain": "disaster_response"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "care.emotional",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "good.moral",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "gay.sexual",
    "lesbian.sexual",
    "worship.emotional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "love",
    "loved",
    "loves",
    "loving"
  ],
  "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 'good.moral' and 'people.social' to components to align with definition and interaction. These were implied in the definition's semantics but missing from the declared components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-love.emotional"
}