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justice - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | justice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness, fairness |
| Synonyms: | amends, appeal, authority, authorization, charter, code, compensation, consideration, correction, credo, creed, decree, equity, evenness, hearing, honesty, impartiality, integrity, law, legality, litigation, penalty, recompense, rectitude, redress, reparation, review, right, rule, sanction, sentence, truth, constitutionality, due process, fair play, fair treatment, judicatory, judicature, justness, legal process, legalization, legitimacy, reasonableness, square deal |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
| Antonyms: | injustice, lawlessness, partiality, illegality, unethicalness, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | justice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who oversees court of law |
| Synonyms: | court, judge, magistrate, umpire*, chancellor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | democracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | government in which people participate |
| Synonyms: | commonwealth, emancipation, equality, freedom, justice, republic, suffrage, egalitarianism, equalitarianism, liberal government, representative government |
| Main Entry: | judge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who arbitrates |
| Synonyms: | arbiter, authority, bench, court, critic, expert, honor, inspector, intercessor, intermediary, interpreter, judiciary, justice, magistrate, marshal, moderator, negotiator, peacemaker, referee, umpire, warden, adjudicator, appraiser, assessor, chancellor, conciliator, evaluator, justice of peace, legal official, magister, ombudsman, reconciler |
| Main Entry: | jurist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jurisprudent |
| Synonyms: | attorney, barrister, counsel, counselor, defender, judge, justice, lawyer, magistrate, counsellor, legal adviser, legal expert, legal scholar |
| Main Entry: | magistrate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | civil officer |
| Synonyms: | bailiff, judge, justice, justice of the peace, JP |
| 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: | morality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics, honesty |
| Synonyms: | chastity, conduct, decency, gentleness, godliness, goodness, honor, ideals, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtue, ethicality, ethicalness, good habits, incorruptibility, incorruption, principles, rightness, saintliness, standards, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | corruption, dishonesty, evil, amorality, badness, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | probity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fairness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, integrity, justice, morality, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, worth, rightness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | deceit, dishonesty, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | redress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, compensation |
| Synonyms: | aid, amendment, amends, assistance, atonement, change, correction, cure, ease, indemnity, justice, payment, recompense, reformation, rehabilitation, relief, remedy, remission, remodeling, renewal, repair, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, return, revision, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, balancing, conciliation, offsetting, quittance, rectification, reestablishment, reworking |
| Antonyms: | hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | retribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payback for another's action |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, eye for an eye*, justice, punishment, reckoning, recompense, redress, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revenge, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, avengement, avenging, counterblow, just desserts, revanche, what for |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness, comfort, compensation, complacency, contentment, delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure, pride, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief, reparation, resolution, reward, serenity, settlement, vindication, well-being, conciliation, contentedness, good fortune, indemnification, propitiation, repletion, satiety |
| Antonyms: | discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want |
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candor, earnestness, frankness, good faith, goodwill, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, probity, reliability, seriousness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, bona fides, genuineness, guilelessness, openness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | tribunal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | court |
| Synonyms: | bar, bench, board, committee, council, forum, judge, judiciary, justice, law court, magistrate, court of justice, seat of judgment |
| Main Entry: | umpire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who settles dispute |
| Synonyms: | arbiter, arbitrator, inspector, judge, justice, mediator, moderator, negotiator, peacemaker, proprietor, referee, settler, adjudicator, assessor, compromiser, ref, ump |
| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
| Synonyms: | advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fortitude, generosity, goodness, hope, ideal, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, uprightness, value, worth, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, fineness, good point, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, evil, vice, immorality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impartiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evenhandedness |
| Synonyms: | equality, fairness, justice, neutrality, probity |
| Main Entry: | legality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legitimacy |
| Synonyms: | authority, justice, right, validity, constitutionality, defendability, lawfulness, permissibility |
| Main Entry: | level playing field |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of equality |
| Synonyms: | equity, justice, proportion, symmetry, equal opportunity, equal rights |
| 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 |
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