injustice

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French injustice; surface analysis is in- +‎ justice.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/

Noun

injustice (plural injustices)

1. absence of justice
2. violation of the rights of another person
3. unfairness; the state of not being fair or just
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

     The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.

Synonyms

• wrong
• wrength

Related terms

• just
• justice
• unjust

Usage notes

Beware that injustice and unjust use different prefixes (French injustice was borrowed into English, but injuste was not) – *unjustice and *injust are incorrect.

Translations

absence of justice

Armenian: անարդարություն (hy) (anardarut’yun) Croatian: bèsprāvlje (hr) n., bezákonje (hr) n. German: Unrecht (de) n. Greek: Ancient: ἀδικία (adikia) f.

Portuguese: injustiça (pt) f. Scottish Gaelic: eucoir (gd) Serbian: bespravlje (sr) n., bezakonje (sr) n. Swahili: dhuluma (sw) Swedish: orättvisa (sv) c. Turkish: adaletsizlik (tr)

violation of the rights of another

Croatian: nèprāvda (hr) f., krȋvda (hr) f. Czech: nespravedlnost (cs) f. German: Ungerechtigkeit (de) f. Italian: ingiustizia (it) f. Scottish Gaelic: eucoir (gd) f.

Serbian: nepravda (sr) f., krivda (sr) f. Swahili: dhuluma (sw) Swedish: oförrätt (sv) c., orättvisa (sv) c. Turkish: haksızlık (tr), adaletsizlik (tr)

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French

Etymology

From Latin iniustitia (“injustice”), from iniustus (“unjust”).

Noun

injustice f. (plural injustices)

1. injustice