unfairness
part of speech
noun (unfairness; uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) The quality of not being fair; treating people in an unequal or unjust way. tree →
2) An example of being unfair. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used about rules, games, sharing and justice. In stories and PSHE or social studies lessons it names what makes characters upset or brave enough to speak up. In maths, unfair sharing means the parts are not equal.
examples
- She complained about the unfairness of the new rule. tree →
- The unfairness of the referee's call made the fans angry. tree →
- Sharing 10 sweets as 7 and 3 is unfair; the unfairness is easy to see. tree →
- He spoke up against the unfairness in his school. tree →
- The story is about a girl who fights unfairness. tree →
- We talked about the unfairness of some old laws. tree →
- Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. tree →
note
Uncountable: no «unfairnesses» in normal use. Adjective: unfair; adverb: unfairly. Opposite: fairness. Fair sharing means equal parts; 10 shared fairly between 2 is 5 each.
In the corpora
- Feeling angry about unfairness is natural, and that anger can lead people to help others or change things.
- The mockery aims at the unfairness, not the person: "Oh, the invisible sheet.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «unfairness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.