{
  "id": "private.social",
  "term": "private",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "private",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "not for others, kept inside its own boundary",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "boundary.limit",
      "inside.spatial",
      "keep.maintenance"
    ],
    "interaction": "the thing maintains what is within its boundary and keeps out distinct entities.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exclusion of outsiders",
      "internal persistence",
      "bounded autonomy"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Swiss Air Force keeps its fighter jet operations and radar placements classified from NATO allies.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple’s iMessage encrypts messages so only sender and recipient devices can access the content.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "A queen honeybee’s pheromones suppress ovary development in worker bees, maintaining colony structure.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "private",
    "privately"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "added missing component 'keep.maintenance' because definition implies active maintenance of internal state"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-private.social"
}