{
  "id": "neglect.omission",
  "term": "neglect",
  "sense": "omission",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "homeostasis",
  "domain": "maintenance",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "maintenance work below the drift rate, with the wall still distant.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end",
      "parameter.condition",
      "below.spatial",
      "rating.evaluation",
      "still.quiet",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components combine to describe sustained effort that fails to keep pace with aimless decline, where the threshold has not yet been reached.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unreached critical threshold",
      "effort insufficient relative to drift",
      "persisting below-rating state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2017 Oroville Dam spillway failure followed years of deferred inspections and erosion repairs.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Between 2008 and 2015, Greece’s public road maintenance spending fell by 74%, increasing pothole density.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope’s gyroscopes degraded over time, requiring repeated servicing missions to maintain function.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "duct-tape.upkeep",
    "technical-debt.upkeep"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "neglect",
    "neglected",
    "neglecting",
    "neglects"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "All previously declared components are retained as they are invoked or implied in the definition; the missing constitutive concepts (below.spatial, rating.evaluation, still.quiet, work.effort) are add"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-neglect.omission"
}