injustice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- +‎ justice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/

Noun

injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)

1. Absence of justice; unjustice.
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”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

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

Related terms

• just
• justice
• unjust
• injust, injustly (rare)

Translations

absence of justice

• Arabic: ظُلْم (ar) m (ẓulm), جَوْر (ar) (jawr)
• Armenian: անարդարություն (hy) (anardarutʻyun)
• Aromanian: nidriptati f, adichii f, strãmbãtati f
• Bulgarian: несправедливост (bg) f (nespravedlivost)
• Catalan: injustícia f
• Cebuano: inhustisya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不平 (zh) (bùpíng), 不公平 (zh) (bùgōngpíng)

• Dutch: onrecht (nl) n
• Finnish: epäoikeudenmukaisuus (fi), vääryys (fi)
• French: injustice (fr) f
• Galician: inxustiza (gl) f
• Georgian: უსამართლობა (usamartloba)
• German: Unrecht (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀδικία f (adikía)

• Haitian Creole: abi
• Japanese: 不正 (ja) (ふせい, fusei), 不公平 (ja) (ふこうへい, fukōhei)
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• Latin: iniūria f
• Macedonian: неправда f (nepravda)
• Manx: aggair m
• Ngazidja Comorian: udhulumifu class 11
• Old English: unrihtwīsnes f
• Polish: niesprawiedliwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: injustiça (pt) f
• Romanian: nedreptate (ro) f, injustiție (ro) f, strâmbătate (ro) f (archaic, popular)
• Russian: несправедли́вость (ru) f (nespravedlívostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: eucoir
• Serbo-Croatian: bèsprāvlje (sh) n, bezákonje (sh) n
• Spanish: injusticia (es) f
• Swahili: dhuluma (sw)
• Swedish: orättvisa (sv) c
• Tagalog: labag sa katarungan
• Thai: ความไม่เป็นธรรม (kwaam mâi bpen tam)
• Turkish: adaletsizlik (tr)

violation of the rights of another

• Arabic: ظُلْم (ar) m (ẓulm), جَوْر (ar) m (jawr)
• Catalan: injustícia f
• Cebuano: inhustisya
• Czech: nespravedlnost f
• Finnish: epäoikeudenmukaisuus (fi), vääryys (fi)
• French: injustice (fr) f
• Galician: inxustiza (gl) f
• German: Ungerechtigkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀδικία f (adikía)

• Italian: ingiustizia (it) f
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• Manx: aggair m
• Old English: unrihtwīsnes f
• Portuguese: injustiça (pt) f
• Russian: несправедли́вость (ru) f (nespravedlívostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: eucoir f
• Serbo-Croatian: неправда f, nèprāvda (sh) f, кривда f, krȋvda (sh) f
• Swahili: dhuluma (sw)
• Swedish: oförrätt (sv) c, orättvisa (sv) c
• Turkish: haksızlık (tr), adaletsizlik (tr)

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French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin iniūstitia, injūstitia, from iniustus (“unjust”).

Noun

injustice f (plural injustices)

1. injustice

Related terms

• justice
• injuste

Further reading

• “injustice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Verb

injustice

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