{
  "id": "super.intensifier",
  "term": "super",
  "sense": "intensifier",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "super",
  "domain": "adjective",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "more great than what is usual",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "great.size",
      "high.spatial",
      "further.degree",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "great and high together increase the degree more than usual",
    "novel_properties": [
      "extreme degree",
      "excess beyond normal",
      "amplified quality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake registered 9.0 on the Richter scale, stronger than any previous quake recorded in Japan's modern history.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider accelerates protons to 99.9999991% of the speed of light, exceeding any other human-made velocity.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest rises 8,848 meters above sea level, surpassing all other peaks on Earth's surface.",
      "domain": "geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "great.size",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "usual.common",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "super"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'usual.common' to components to align with definition; definition kept intact as it correctly reflects emergence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-super.intensifier"
}