injustice

injustice

See also: Injustice

English

Etymology

From Middle English injustice, from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- +‎ justice. Displaced native Old English unrihtwīsnes.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/

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Noun

injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)

1. Absence of justice; unjustice.
2. Violation of the rights of another person or people.

   Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.

   • 1971, Johnson, Lyndon, The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 39:

     I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue.

3. Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in 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.

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) (anardarutʿyun) Aromanian: nidriptati f, adichii f, strãmbãtati f Asturian: inxusticia f Belarusian: несправядлі́васць f (njespravjadlívascʹ), бяспра́ўе n (bjaspráŭje), беззако́нне n (bjezzakónnje) Bulgarian: несправедли́вост (bg) f (nespravedlívost), беззако́ние (bg) n (bezzakónie) Catalan: injustícia f Cebuano: inhustisya Chinese: Mandarin: 不平 (zh) (bùpíng), 不公平 (zh) (bùgōngpíng) Czech: bezpráví (cs) n Danish: uretfærdighed c 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: αδικία (el) f (adikía) Ancient: ἀδικία f (adikía) Haitian Creole: abi Hungarian: igazságtalanság (hu) Japanese: 不正 (ja) (ふせい, fusei), 不公平 (ja) (ふこうへい, fukōhei) Korean: 불법 (ko) (bulbeop), 부정 (ko) (bujeong), 불공평 (ko) (bulgongpyeong) Latin: iniūria f Macedonian: неправда f (nepravda) Manx: aggair m Ngazidja Comorian: udhulumifu class 11 Old English: unrihtwīsnes f Persian: ظلم‎ (fa) (zolm), بی‌عدالتی‎ (fa) (bi-edâlati), بی‌انصافی‎ (bi-ensâfi) 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), беспра́вие (ru) n (besprávije), беззако́ние (ru) n (bezzakónije) Scottish Gaelic: eucoir Serbo-Croatian: Roman: бѐспра̄вље n, беза́коње n, нѐпра̄вда f Roman: bèsprāvlje (sh) n, bezákonje (sh) n, nèprāvda (sh) f Slovak: bezprávie n Slovene: krivica f Spanish: injusticia (es) f Swahili: dhuluma (sw) Swedish: orättvisa (sv) c Tagalog: labag sa katarungan Thai: ความไม่เป็นธรรม (kwaam-mâi-bpen-tam) Turkish: adaletsizlik (tr) Ukrainian: несправедли́вість f (nespravedlývistʹ), безпра́в'я (uk) n (bezprávʺja), беззако́ння (uk) n (bezzakónnja) Vietnamese: sự bất công (vi)

violation of the rights of another

Arabic: ظُلْم‎ (ar) m (ẓulm), جَوْر‎ (ar) m (jawr) Asturian: inxusticia f Belarusian: несправядлі́васць f (njespravjadlívascʹ) Bulgarian: несправедли́вост (bg) f (nespravedlívost) Catalan: injustícia f Cebuano: inhustisya Czech: nespravedlnost f Danish: uretfærdighed c Finnish: epäoikeudenmukaisuus (fi), vääryys (fi) French: injustice (fr) f Galician: inxustiza (gl) f German: Ungerechtigkeit (de) f Greek: αδικία (el) f (adikía) Ancient: ἀδικία f (adikía) Hungarian: igazságtalanság (hu) Italian: ingiustizia (it) f Macedonian: неправда f (nepravda) Manx: aggair m Old English: unrihtwīsnes f Polish: niesprawiedliwość (pl) f Portuguese: injustiça (pt) f Russian: несправедли́вость (ru) f (nespravedlívostʹ) Scottish Gaelic: eucoir f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нѐпра̄вда f, кри̑вда f Roman: nèprāvda (sh) f, krȋvda (sh) f Slovak: nespravodlivosť n, krivda f Slovene: krivica f, nepravičnost f Spanish: injusticia (es) f Swahili: dhuluma (sw) Swedish: oförrätt (sv) c, orättvisa (sv) c Turkish: haksızlık (tr), adaletsizlik (tr) Ukrainian: несправедли́вість f (nespravedlývistʹ)

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ʒys.tis/

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

1. inflection of injustiçar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative