injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness
(noun) an unjust act
injustice, unjustness
(noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• 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.
• 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
26 June 2024
(verb) include or contain; have as a component; “A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”; “The record contains many old songs from the 1930’s”
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