injustice

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/

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:

     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.

• 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.

• justicelessness
• unjustice (nonstandard)
• wrong
• wrength

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

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

injustice f (plural injustices)

1. injustice

• justice
• injuste

• “injustice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

injustice

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of injustiçar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of injustiçar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of injustiçar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of injustiçar