Word.ws English Dictionary

unfairness

UK/ʌnˈfɛənəs//ʌnˈfɛɚnəs/

unfairness noun: the state of being unfair; lack of justice.

Noun

unfairness (usually uncountable, plural unfairnesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being unfair; lack of justice.
    • The reason why fairness in taxation matters is institutionalized unfairness rots society from the inside, and the social order and economy eventually collapse.2024 January 28, Charles Hugh Smith, Our Tax System Is an Unfair Mess: Here's How to Fix It
    Antonyms:
    fairness
  2. (countable, usually) An unjust act or situation.
    • That this woman was Chip's little sister, Denise—i.e., was the only attractive young woman on the planet whom he was neither permitted nor inclined to feast his eyes on and imagine having sex with—seemed to him just the latest unfairness in a long morning of unfairnesses.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

unfairness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic

unfairness in Tamil

நேரீனம், நியாயத்தப்பு

unfairness in Urdu

unfairness
زیادتی ziyādatī

unfairness in Kannada

unfairness, dishonesty
ಕೊಳಕು koḷaku

unfairness in Arabic

state of being unfair
ظُلْم ẓulm

Antonyms of unfairness

Forms of unfairness

pluralunfairnesses

Origin of unfairness

From unfair + -ness.

Words that rhyme with unfairness

Questions about unfairness

What does unfairness mean?
Unfairness means the state of being unfair; lack of justice.
What is unfairness in Tamil?
Unfairness in Tamil is நேரீனம், நியாயத்தப்பு. See Unfairness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unfairness?
Unfairness is a noun.
How do you pronounce unfairness?
Unfairness is pronounced /ʌnˈfɛənəs/ (UK).
What is the plural of unfairness?
The plural of unfairness is unfairnesses.

Words near unfairness in the dictionary

  1. unfairest
  2. unfairing
  3. unfairly
  4. unfairminded
  5. unfairmindedness
  6. unfairness
  7. unfairnesses
  8. unfairs
  9. unfairy
  10. unfairylike
  11. unfaith

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unfairness (page history and authors); unfairness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); زیادتی (Urdu) (page history and authors); ಕೊಳಕು (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-unfairness.ogg.

Cite this entry: “unfairness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unfairness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.