{
  "id": "want.desire",
  "term": "want",
  "sense": "desire",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "want",
  "domain": "semantic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a need for something that is off",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "need.psychological",
      "off.state"
    ],
    "interaction": "the need interacts with the off state",
    "novel_properties": [
      "motivation to obtain",
      "preference for change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station requires constant reboosts to counteract atmospheric drag and maintain orbit.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2003, the Northeast Blackout spread when one overloaded power line sagged into a tree in Ohio.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cancer cells consume glucose at 200 times the rate of normal cells to fuel uncontrolled growth.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "need.psychological",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "get.acquisition",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "interest.psychological",
    "pleasure.feeling",
    "wish.emotional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "want",
    "wanted",
    "wanting",
    "wants"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-want.desire"
}