fairness

Treating people equally and making reasonable decisions without favoring anyone.

• Everyone deserves fairness.
• The new rules aim to ensure fairness.
• Players questioned the fairness of the referee's decisions.

How to use it: in fairness to someone (In fairness to Jo, she had very little time to prepare.)

Similar words: justice, impartiality, equity

Opposites: unfairness

Common phrases: in fairness, ensure fairness, fairness to someone, fairness of something

A woman's beauty.

• The poet praised her fairness.
• Her fairness drew admirers from distant lands.
• The queen's fairness was celebrated in song.

Similar words: beauty, loveliness

Opposites: ugliness

Common phrases: her fairness, maiden’s fairness