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If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.
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Meaning of "fairness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FAIRNESS

fairness  [ˈfɛənɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FAIRNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fairness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FAIRNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fairness in the English dictionary

The definition of fairness in the dictionary is the quality of being reasonable, right and just. Other definition of fairness is fair treatment; justice.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FAIRNESS


awareness
əˈwɛənɪs
bareness
ˈbɛənɪs
baroness
ˈbærənɪs
bitterness
ˈbɪtənɪs
cleverness
ˈklevənɪs
dearness
ˈdɪənɪs
drunkenness
ˈdrʌŋkənɪs
eagerness
ˈiːɡənɪs
lioness
ˈlaɪənɪs
otherness
ˈʌðənɪs
rareness
ˈrɛənɪs
self-awareness
ˈsɛlfəˈwɛənɪs
sourness
ˈsaʊənɪs
tenderness
ˈtɛndənɪs
thoroughness
ˈθʌrənɪs
togetherness
təˈɡɛðənɪs
unawareness
ˌʌnəˈwɛənɪs
unfairness
ʌnˈfɛənɪs
unwareness
ʌnˈwɛənɪs
wilderness
ˈwɪldənɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAIRNESS

fairground
fairies
fairily
fairing
fairish
fairishly
fairlead
fairleader
fairly
fairly-traded
Fairness Doctrine
fairnitickle
fairniticle
fairnytickle
fairnyticle
fairway
Fairweather
fairy
fairy armadillo
fairy bluebird

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAIRNESS

a voice in the wilderness
Barrow-in-Furness
betterness
business
clearness
die in harness
farness
Furness
globularness
governess
harness
in harness
in the wilderness
Inverness
nearness
poorness
queerness
Sheerness
slenderness
soberness
the Wilderness

Synonyms and antonyms of fairness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FAIRNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fairness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of fairness

Translation of «fairness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAIRNESS

Find out the translation of fairness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fairness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fairness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

公平
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imparcialidad
570 millions of speakers

English

fairness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निष्पक्षता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَدْل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

справедливость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imparcialidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সততা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

équité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keadilan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Grechtigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

公正
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공평함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Keadilan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự công bằng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நேர்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सौंदर्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

adalet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imparzialità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sprawiedliwość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

справедливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corectitudine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εντιμότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

regverdigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rättvisa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rettferdighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fairness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIRNESS»

The term «fairness» is very widely used and occupies the 19.200 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIRNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fairness

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10 QUOTES WITH «FAIRNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fairness.
1
Kate Adie
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
2
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
3
John Bercow
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
4
Roy Blunt
If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.
5
Jim Bridenstine
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
6
Arthur C. Brooks
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
7
Gordon Brown
So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
8
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
9
David Cameron
Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.
10
Anton Chekhov
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAIRNESS»

Discover the use of fairness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fairness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fairness: Theory and Practice of Distributive Justice
This is something quite different from subjective equity based on the personal evaluation of goods by those laying claim to them.
Nicholas Rescher
2
Against Fairness
A polymath philosopher shares lighthearted examples of humanity's unspoken instinct toward favoritism to argue against zealous pursuits of fairness, supporting his controversial stance by demonstrating how absolute impartiality compromises ...
Stephen T. Asma, 2012
3
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s.
John Rawls, Erin Kelly, 2001
4
Fairness
Encourages ethical choices by focusing on the actions of people who demonstrate fairness.
Bruce Glassman, 2008
5
Free Market Fairness
John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness treats both traditions with depth, nuance, and unremitting fair-mindedness, and then points us toward a synthesis. Social democrats and libertarians equally need to read this book.
John Tomasi, 2012
6
FAIRNESS VERSUS WELFARE
Fairness versus Welfare has profound implications for the theory and practice of policy analysis and has already generated considerable debate in academia.
Louis KAPLOW, Steven Shavell, 2009
7
In Fairness to Future Generations: International Law, Common ...
She makes the impossible possible. Louis B. Sohn, Woodruff Professor of International Law
Edith Brown Welss, 1989
8
Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls
Failing at Fairness, the result of two decades of research, shows how gender bias makes it impossible for girls to receive an education equal to that given to boys.
Myra Sadker, David Sadker, 2010
9
Fairness and Groups
This volume introduces cutting-edge justice theorizing and research at the intersection of justice and groups.
Margaret Ann Neale, Elizabeth A. Mannix, Elizabeth Mullen, 2010
10
Still Failing at Fairness: How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and ...
This book documents how teaching, current testing practices, and subtle cultural attitudes continue to short-circuit both girls and boys of every race, social class, and ethnicity.
David Sadker, Karen R. Zittleman, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAIRNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fairness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Fairness coalition event is 'overwhelming success'
Sophia Nosato and Grayson Rohrig, both of Bowling Green, sat at Fountain Square Park contemplating the Bowling Green Fairness Coalition's ... «Bowling Green Daily News, Jul 15»
2
Job evaluation key to fairness and equity
This exercise has been widely lauded for helping bring about fairness and equality in the public sector. It is credited with improving the ... «The Standard Digital News, Jul 15»
3
Dir. of Fairness Campaign responds to county clerks; talks strategy …
Chris Hartman, the director of the Fairness Campaign, said those clerks ... Meanwhile the Fairness Campaign is spreading their message in an ... «cn|2, Jul 15»
4
Stand on Lakhvi based on facts, fairness: China
Beijing, July 9: Defending its stand to block India's move in the UN that called for action against Pakistan on the release of Mumbai attacks ... «Oneindia, Jul 15»
5
Fairness
The bottom line: Fairness and respect in all things. ***. On Beacon Hill, the Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse is considering a ... «Nashoba Publishing, Jul 15»
6
Chirwa stood for fairness, justice
GOVERNMENT has described the late Workers Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB) chairperson and veteran trade unionist Alec ... «Zambia Daily Mail, Jul 15»
7
Q&A review: Host Tony Jones to be examined over fairness of …
The fairness of Q&A host Tony Jones will be scrutinised as part of the ABC's far-reaching independent editorial review of the program, which is ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
8
The Struggle for Fairness for Transgender Workers
Shortly after graduating from college in Pennsylvania last year, Elaine Rita Mendus hopped on a Greyhound bus, hoping the $2,000 in her ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
9
Opinion: Generational strife – where's the fairness?
That may change, but in the meantime I'd like to think our party can begin to nudge the debate on economic fairness onto this ground. «Liberal Democrat Voice, Jul 15»
10
The Gargoyle: Questions about fairness of Tory nomination in Nepean
The Conservative Party is defending the nomination process that chose Andy Wang, a former aide to MP Pierre Poilievre, as the party's ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jul 15»

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