Dictionary Definition
injustice
Noun
1 an unjust act [syn: unfairness, iniquity]
2 the practice of being unjust or unfair [syn:
unjustness] [ant:
justice]
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Translations
absence of justice
- German: Unrecht
violation of the rights of another
- Czech: nespravedlnost
- German: Ungerechtigkeit
Extensive Definition
Injustice is the lack of or opposition to
justice, either in
reference to a particular event or act, or as a larger status quo.
The term generally refers to the misuse, abuse, neglect, or
malfeasance of a justice
system, with regard to a particular case or context, such that
the legal status quo represents a systemic failure to serve the
cause of justice.
Other usage
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abstractionism, asymmetry, atrocity, bias, bigotry, breach, coloring, contrariety, crime, crime against humanity,
damage, deadly sin,
deformation,
delinquency,
dereliction,
difference, discrimination, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disservice, distortion, enormity, error, evil, exaggeration, expressionism, failure, false coloring,
falsification,
fault, favoritism, felony, garbling, genocide, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice,
guilty act, harm, heavy
sin, heterogeneity, hurt, hyperbole, imbalance, imposition, impropriety, inaccuracy, inadequacy, indiscretion, inequality, inequitableness,
inequity, inexpiable
sin, infraction,
infringement,
iniquity, injury, insufficiency, irregularity, lapse, litotes, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, miscarriage of
justice, mischief,
miscoloring,
misdeed, misdemeanor, misdrawing, misfeasance, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation,
misstatement,
misteaching, mortal
sin, nonfeasance,
nonrealism, nonuniformity, odds, offense, omission, one-sidedness,
outrage, overbalance, overdrawing, overstatement, partiality, partisanship, peccadillo, peccancy, perversion, prejudice, raw deal, ruin, shortcoming, sin, sin of commission, sin of
omission, sinful act, slanting, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, twisting, unbalance, understatement, unevenness, unfair
discrimination, unfairness, unjustness, unutterable sin,
venial sin, villainy,
violation, wrong, wrongdoing