unfairness

Other forms of unfairness

plural

unfairnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unfairness

What does unfairness mean?

unfairness means "partiality that is not fair or equitable". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unfairness?

unfairness has 3 syllables: un-fair-ness. The stress falls on "fair". In IPA it is /ənˈfɛɹnəs/.

What is another word for unfairness?

Close synonyms include inequity, injustice, iniquity, shabbiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unfairness?

The recorded antonyms are fairness, fairness.

Is unfairness a common word?

unfairness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unfairness?

1 word rhymes with unfairness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.