INJUSTICE

injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness

(noun) an unjust act

injustice, unjustness

(noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)

Absence of justice; unjustice.

Violation of the rights of another person or people.

Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.

Usage notes

Injustice and unjust use different prefixes, as French injustice was borrowed into English, while unjust was formed as un- + just. The spelling injust, from French injuste, is very rarely used, and unjustice, from un- + justice, is nonstandard.

Synonyms

• justicelessness

• unjustice (nonstandard)

• wrong

• wrength

Source: Wiktionary


In*jus"tice, n. Etym: [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust.]

1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. Burke.

2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. Swift.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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