{
  "id": "nice.polite",
  "term": "nice",
  "sense": "polite",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "nice",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "is polite and good",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "polite.social",
      "good.moral"
    ],
    "interaction": "when something is both polite and good, it becomes nice",
    "novel_properties": [
      "pleasant demeanor",
      "social approval"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Japanese tea ceremony, with its precise bows and silence, upholds harmony and respect among participants.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linus Torvalds responded to a critical bug report with 'Thanks, good catch,' despite the project's high stakes.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Sweden's 19th-century postal service required clerks to greet every customer with a nod and 'Good day, citizen.'",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "polite.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "bad.moral",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "nice",
    "nicer",
    "nicest"
  ],
  "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-nice.polite"
}