{
  "id": "risk-appetite.width",
  "term": "risk appetite",
  "sense": "width",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "How near a wall the members of a collective self will act, read from what they choose: wider as their reach reads large, narrower as walls read near.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "reach.action",
      "near.spatial",
      "wall.range-end",
      "member.social",
      "act.deed",
      "read.information",
      "choose.decision",
      "wide.spatial",
      "large.size",
      "narrow.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "Choices of what to hold are read as a statement of how close to the wall members are willing to go; that closeness tracks the shared read of reach and of wall nearness.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "affect read from holdings",
      "a willingness measured as distance to a wall"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Market analysts call days when investors buy stocks and sell government bonds 'risk-on', and the reverse 'risk-off'.",
      "domain": "finance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "safety.security",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "safety is distance from a wall bought by narrowing; risk appetite is how much of that distance is given up"
    },
    {
      "id": "flight-to-safety.pulled-in",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the flight is risk appetite falling all at once"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "appetite for risk",
    "risk appetite",
    "risk appetites"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-risk-appetite.width"
}