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, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[2]:

     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

Derived terms

• injustice collecting
• injustice collection
• injustice collector

 

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
• 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, onrechtvaardigheid (nl) f
• 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)
• Italian: ingiustizia (it) f
• Japanese: 不正 (ja) (ふせい, fusei), 不公平 (ja) (ふこうへい, fukōhei)
• Korean: 부정(不正) (ko) (bujeong), 불공평(不公平) (ko) (bulgongpyeong)
• Latin: iniūria f
• Macedonian: неправда f (nepravda)
• Manx: aggair m
• Ngazidja Comorian: udhulumifu class 11
• Old English: unrihtwīsnes f
• Persian: ظُلم (fa) (zolm), بی‌عِدالَتی (fa) (bi-e'dâlati), بی‌اِنصافی (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 (cs) 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)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin 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.

Portuguese

Verb

injustice

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