{
  "id": "never.temporal",
  "term": "never",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "never",
  "domain": "time.dimension",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "not at any time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "time.dimension supplies all moments while pattern.regularity supplies the idea of an occurrence, together allowing the claim that no moment has the occurrence",
    "novel_properties": [
      "absolute temporal negation",
      "absence of occurrence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The city of Venice has never frozen solid in recorded history, despite winter temperatures near 0°C.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has never been amended to remove voting rights from a previously enfranchised group.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The software library jQuery has never had a version numbered 4.0 released as of 2023.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "autonomy.self-governed",
    "reputation.social-model"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "never"
  ],
  "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-never.temporal"
}