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fairness - 16 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | candor, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, due, duty, equity, fair shake*, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, moderation, propriety, right, righteousness, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity, charitableness, disinterestedness, equitableness, exactitude, fair-mindedness, give and take, justness, legitimacy, open-mindedness, rationality, reasonableness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | inequity, injustice, partiality, wrong, unfairness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adequacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, competency in some |
| Synonyms: | capacity, competence, enough, fairness, plenty, sufficiency, action capability, commensurateness, requisiteness, satisfactoriness, suitableness, tolerableness |
| Antonyms: | inadequacy, insufficiency, inadequateness |
| Main Entry: | candor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, fairness, frankness, honesty, impartiality, naiveté, probity, simplicity, sincerity, truthfulness, uprightness, veracity, directness, forthrightness, glasnost, guilelessness, ingenuousness, openness, outspokenness, straightforwardness, unequivocalness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | chivalry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | valor, gallantry |
| Synonyms: | courage, courtesy, fairness, politeness, courtliness, valiance |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, fear, humility, humbleness |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, endurance, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, mercy, mildness, moderation, tenderness, tolerance, caritas, equitableness, justness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, soft-heartedness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | no mercy |
| Main Entry: | equality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | similarity, balance; egalitarianism |
| Synonyms: | civil rights, correspondence, equilibrium, equivalence, evenness, fair shake*, fairness, identity, impartiality, likeness, par, parity, sameness, tolerance, uniformity, adequation, commensurateness, coordination, equal opportunity, equatability, equipoise, fair play, fair practice, homology, isonomy, parallelism |
| Antonyms: | difference, disproportion, dissimilarity, imbalance, inequality, unfairness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, goodness, honor, integrity, loyalty, morality, principle, probity, rectitude, responsibility, right, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, uprightness, veracity, virtue, bluntness, evenhandedness, genuineness, impeccability, incorruptibility, justness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, reputability, scrupulousness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, lying, treachery, fraudulence |
| Main Entry: | moderation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temperance |
| Synonyms: | balance, calmness, composure, constraint, coolness, equanimity, fairness, forbearance, golden mean, justice, measure, mildness, patience, poise, quiet, restraint, sobriety, dispassionateness, judiciousness, justness, lenity, moderateness, reasonableness, sedateness, sedation, steadiness, toleration |
| Antonyms: | extreme, indulgence, intemperance, intensity, severity, violence, outrageousness, unlimitedness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | sportsmanship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | fairness, goodness, honesty, honor, principle, righteousness, sincerity, virtue, forthrightness, gamesmanship, honorableness |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, candor, correctness, credibility, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, gospel*, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, precision, probity, real McCoy*, reality, rectitude, sincerity, truism, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word*, authenticity, exactitude, genuineness, honest-to-god truth, like it is, openness, rightness, straight stuff, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impartiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evenhandedness |
| Synonyms: | equality, fairness, justice, neutrality, probity |
| Main Entry: | loveliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal |
| Synonyms: | beauty, charm, fairness, attractiveness, comeliness |
| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical attractiveness |
| Synonyms: | allure, artistry, attraction, bloom, charm, class, delicacy, elegance, fairness, fascination, grace, loveliness, polish, pulchritude, refinement, style, symmetry, adorableness, allurement, comeliness, exquisiteness, glamor, good looks, handsomeness, shapeliness, winsomeness |
| Antonyms: | ugliness, homeliness, offensiveness |
| Main Entry: | equity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impartiality |
| Synonyms: | fairness, honesty, integrity, justice, piece, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, disinterestedness, equitableness, even-handedness, fair play, fair-mindedness, justness, nonpartisanship, reasonableness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | bias, inequity, partiality, unfairness, unjustness |
| Main Entry: | righteousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | fairness, goodness, honor, rectitude, respectability, uprightness, virtue, justness |
| Main Entry: | honor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | character, chastity, courage, decency, fairness, goodness, honesty, innocence, modesty, morality, morals, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, honestness, incorruption, incorruptness, principles, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | blemish, disgrace, dishonor, stigma, ill repute |
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