{
  "id": "polite.social",
  "term": "polite",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "draft",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "polite.social",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "state that respect others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "state.condition",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "state and others together do respect",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual regard",
      "social harmony"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Japanese tea ceremony prescribes precise gestures that acknowledge each participant's role and presence.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2019, Finnish passengers on Finnair Flight 923 deferred boarding to allow an elderly couple extra time to board.",
      "domain": "everyday-life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Internet Engineering Task Force enforces polite communication norms in RFC comment threads despite technical disagreements.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "please.politeness",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "friendly.social",
    "good.moral",
    "nice.polite",
    "please.politeness",
    "thank.social",
    "thanks.social",
    "welcome.greeting"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "polite",
    "politeest",
    "politer"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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-polite.social"
}