{
  "id": "value.worth",
  "term": "value",
  "sense": "worth",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "value.economic",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "how something's distinctness or utility determines its price",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "quality.value",
      "price.economic",
      "good.moral",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the degree of distinctness and usefulness of a thing together inform how much of a price it can command",
    "novel_properties": [
      "assessable worth",
      "pricing relevance",
      "utility-based value"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2021 semiconductor shortage raised car prices by an average of $6,000 due to limited chip utility in manufacturing.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Diamonds in De Beers' vaults held higher market price than identical lab-grown stones despite equal quality.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Python programming language's readability increased its adoption, raising developer salaries by 15% in 2020.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quality.value",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "capital.financial",
    "chaos.unpredictable-drift",
    "cheap.economic",
    "credit.financial",
    "extreme.position",
    "gold.metal",
    "ground.level",
    "important.significance",
    "necessity.condition",
    "overload.capacity",
    "poker.game",
    "ripening.approaching",
    "special.quality",
    "waste.output"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "value",
    "valued",
    "values",
    "valuing"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'good.moral' and 'use.application' to components, as the definition hinges on utility and moral good as aspects of worth. Adjusted definition slightly to avoid circ"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-value.worth"
}