{
  "id": "sense-of-grievance.collective",
  "term": "sense of grievance",
  "sense": "collective",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Grievance kept across the members of a collective self and in its narrative, so members read walls another set on members before them as set on them.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "grievance.held",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "narrative.self-story",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "across.spatial",
      "member.social",
      "read.information",
      "wall.range-end",
      "set.fix",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "The narrative carries the grievance past the members who suffered it; each new member inherits the demand for repair along with belonging.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "grievance inherited rather than suffered",
      "a repair owed to the group, not to persons"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Historians of interwar Germany describe a widespread sense of grievance over the Treaty of Versailles, including its war-guilt clause, Article 231.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "grievance.held",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "grievance at group scale, carried by narrative"
    },
    {
      "id": "sense-of-betrayal.trusted",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "betrayal locates the setter inside the trusted or the in-group"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "a sense of grievance",
    "collective grievance",
    "sense of grievance"
  ],
  "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-sense-of-grievance.collective"
}