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Definitions: Fairness |
FairnessNoun1. Conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim". 2. Ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty. 3. The property of having a naturally light complexion. 4. The quality of being good looking and attractive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fairness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Law | The quality or state of being fair; esp: fair or impartial treatment: reasonableness. . . . -- of the investigator. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FAIR | English | Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting | Military & Defense |
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Synonyms: FairnessSynonyms: beauteousness (n), blondness (n), candor (n), candour (n), comeliness (n), equity (n), fair-mindedness (n), loveliness (n), paleness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unfairness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry; comeliness, fairness; Adjective: polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure; trigness; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification. |
Probity | Fairness; Adjective: fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness; grace. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fairness |
| English words defined with "fairness": advantageous, appropriate ♦ Disinteressment ♦ equity, Equity of redemption ♦ Faair-spoken, Fairhood, fairness commission ♦ justice of the peace ♦ Lunaria biennis ♦ non-discrimination ♦ sportsmanship, square, squarely, straight ♦ wrongly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fairness": ACUS, ANSI ♦ fairness doctrine ♦ gender equity, guaranteed scheduling ♦ inter-packet gap ♦ Kripke structure. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fairness": Fairhood. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fairness" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (equity, fairness). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | May you boss around all of the kids with fairness. (Recess: School's Out; writing credit: Paul Germain; Joe Ansolabehere) I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Walter F. Mondale | Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It shall take all steps which it thinks proper to ensure the freedom, fairness, and secrecy of the vote. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The program has standards for fairness, equity, and unbiased eligibility. (references) | |
Business | As a commodity traded in a market, fairness should prevail so that discrimination does not exist between generation sources. (references) | |
This project had not yet been awarded as of September 2000. The BOT option offers more transparency and often-greater fairness, because of the tendering process. (references) | ||
Because transmission and distribution maintain their monopoly status in a competitive environment, the major tenet of market fairness resides on the "wires" (transmission and distribution) side of the industry. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mozambique | The CSCS was among the several organizations, including a joint operation by the LDH and Article 19, which monitored media fairness during the 1999 presidential and parliamentary elections; however, the CSCS did not issue an evaluation of the elections by year's end, nor is it expected to do so at a future date. (references) |
Economic History | Mexico | Many of the current electoral concerns have shifted from outright fraud to campaign fairness issues. (references) |
Armenia | The Embassy will usually take action upon request of the U.S. firm to ensure the fairness of government actions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Libya | The U.N. Special Rapporteur noted in 1996 a lack of fairness in trials of capital cases. (references) |
Ukraine | Human rights groups state that, overall, the Constitutional Court has maintained a balance of fairness. (references) | |
Mauritania | In addition poorly educated and poorly trained judges who are susceptible to social, financial, tribal, and personal pressures limit the judicial system's fairness. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | Hardly 10% of the people regularly read newspapers and over 90% of them read Urdu papers which are not noted for their objectivity, fairness or accuracy. (references) |
IRELAND | The current partnership agreement, the Program for Prosperity and Fairness, trades off moderation by trade unions in wage demands in return for cuts in personal taxation by the government. (references) | |
IRELAND | The latest agreement, the Program for Prosperity and Fairness, took effect at the beginning of April 2000 and trades off continued wage/pay moderation by trade unions in return for substantial cuts in personal taxation; (c) The promotion of greater competition and liberalization in the economy, and reducing the number of state-owned industries, particularly in the provision of transport, energy and communications services; (d) The availability of a special ten percent rate of corporate taxation and generous grants to attract foreign investment, which rises to 12.5 percent from 2003 onwards; (e) a commitment to the single European market and to Irish participation in EMU; (f) High levels of investment in education and training (of all OECD countries, only the Japanese workforce has a higher proportion of trained engineers and scientists); and (g) Improvements in physical infrastructure (in all areas from roads to environmental systems to housing stock, details of which are contained in the National Development Plan 2000-2006). Structural investment between 2000-2006 is expected to total around 48 billion dollars. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | Harassment of opposition candidates' activities negatively influenced the fairness of the campaign. (references) |
Zambia | The MMD's use of government resources during campaigns, including the state-owned media, called into question the fairness of the elections. (references) | |
Jordan | Restrictions on the press and on campaign materials also had a negative effect on the campaign, which elicited much debate over the fairness of the previous electoral law and its implementation. (references) | |
Women | Tajikistan | In one widely publicized case in 2000, Dilfuza Nimonova, an alleged victim of rape was convicted, in a trial of questionable fairness, of having killed the man who raped her. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | Workers are reported to have little trust in the fairness of workplace mediation. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Don't give me this fairness business. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | The enjoyment of this right follows the badge of citizenship wherever found, and, unimpaired by race or color, it appeals for recognition to American manliness and fairness. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | But the systems are founded on fairness and justice, and they are working at full speed. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Great attention has been paid to the considerations of fairness, and I can assure you that the burdens will not fall more harshly on those less able to bear them. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Let us go forward with an historic reform for fairness, simplicity, and incentives for growth. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We can have fairness and still clean up toxic dumps, and we ought to do it. |
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| "Fairness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fairness" is used about 688 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 688 | 9,642 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "fairness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Japho | N/A | Biblical | Fairness |
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Expressions using "fairness": fairness commission ♦ fairness doctrine ♦ love of fairness. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fairness": fairness-minded. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fairness | 27 |
act action class fairness | 21 |
cream fairness | 17 |
fairness opinion | 10 |
doctrine fairness | 10 |
fairness question | 9 |
fairness quote | 5 |
fairness workplace | 4 |
fairness in workplace | 4 |
failing fairness | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fairness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paanësi (dispassion, equity, fair play, impartiality, infinity), drejtësi (equity, judiciary, justice, justness, law, moderation, propriety, rectitude, regularity, righteousness, rightness, well doing). (various references) | |
Arabic | عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), النظافة, الوضوح (clearness, explicitness, legibility, patency, pointedness), الصفاء, الجمال (beauty, cameleer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | яснота (clarity, clearness, crispness, definition, distinctness, limpidity, lucidity, neatness, perspicuity, vividness), светъл цвят, свежест (bloom, crispness, dew, flush, fresh, freshness, newness, verdure), справедливост (equity, fair dealing, justice, justness, rectitude, right, rightness), хубост (beauty, comeliness, fineness, prettiness, sightliness), честност (fair dealing, faith, faithfulness, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, loyalty, probity, rectitude, sportsmanship, straightforwardness, straightness, truth), чистота (chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, purity, whiteness), красота (beauty, comeliness, glory, loveliness, pulchritude), любезност (affability, amenity, amiability, civility, decency, douceur, goodness, kindness, mellowness, pleasantness, politeness), безоблачност (serenity), безпристрастие (detachment, equity, indifference), белота (white, whiteness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 公正 (Candor, candour, righteous, rightness, unbiased). (various references) | |
Czech | krása (amenity, beauty, fineness, glory). (various references) | |
Danish | billighed. (various references) | |
Dutch | billijkheid (justice, righteousness). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaaleus (blue reflectance factor, brightness, light colour, lightness, paleness), tasapuolisuus (impartiality). (various references) | |
French | propreté, objectivité, netteté, justice, impartialité, convenance, clarté, capacité, beauté, équité. (various references) | |
German | Billigkeit (cheapness, equity, feebleness, inexpensiveness, justness, lowness, pettiness, shabbiness, tackiness). (various references) | |
Greek | δικαιοσύνη (equity, judicature, justice). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "'י ות (decency, decorum, equity, honesty, morality, plain dealing, propriety, rectitude, respectability, seemliness, sincerity, squareness, worthiness), צ"ק" (alms, bounty, charity, good deed, justice, justness, mercy, merit, piety), צ"ק (honesty, integrity, justice, justness, right, righteousness, rightness, straightness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | méltányosság (equity, justice, justness, reasonableness, right). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kepatutan (appropriateness, consideration), kepantasan (appropriateness, decency, properness). (various references) | |
Italian | equit (equity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同一 (equality, identity, sameness, similarity), 正大 (justice), 公正 (impartiality, justice), 公明正大 (aboveboard, just and upright), 公明 (justice), 公平 (impartial, justice), 中正 (impartiality), 不偏 (impartiality, neutrality). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふへ" (constant, eternal, everlasting, immovable, immutable, impartiality, indestructible, neutrality, omnipresence, permanent, ubiquity, unchangeable, universality), どういつ (equality, identity, sameness, similarity), せい い (grand, justice, magnificent, magnificent imperial reign, prosperous, prosperous era), "うせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction, correction of press, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, tropism, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people), "うめいせい い (aboveboard, just and upright), "うめい (fame, justice, renown), "うへい (armed warrior, arms, balance, engineer, impartial, justice, war), ちゅうせい (impartiality, indifference, loyalty, mediaeval times, Middle Ages, neuter gender, neutral, sincerity, sterility). (various references) | |
Korean | 공 성. (various references) | |
Manx | stoamid (finery, glory, good looks, gorgeousness, gracefulness, grandeur, shapeliness, stateliness, superbness), miljid (freshness, freshness of water), cairys (applicability, justice, right), banid (pallor). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rettferdighet (justice), redelighet (honesty). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airnessfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | equidade (equity control, justice, rectitude, right). (various references) | |
Romanian | frumuseţe (beauty, fineness, good looks, goodliness, handsomeness, loftiness, loveliness, peach, picture), sinceritate (bluntness, candidness, candor, candour, directness, faith, frankness, genuineness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, rectitude, roundness, sincerity, truth, unreserve), obiectivitate (impartiality, liberality, objectiveness, objectivity), loialitate (faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, honesty, loyalty, sincerity, sportsmanship, uprightness), justeţe (accuracy, appositeness, equitableness, exactness, fair-mindedness, impartiality, justice, justness, righteousness, rightness, rigor, rigour, strictness), dreptate (equitableness, fair-mindedness, impartiality, justice, right, righteousness, rightness), curãţenie (chastity, clarity, clean, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, immaculacy, modesty, purity), culoare blondã, claritate (clarity, clearness, definition, distinctness, evidence, explicitness, limpidity, lucidity, neatness, palpability, perspicuity, simplicity, tangibility, transparency), cinste (appreciation, ceremony, chastity, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, faith, faithfulness, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, morality, probity, repute, respect, straight, treat, truth, uprightness, virtue), caracter favorabil, aspect îngrijit. (various references) | |
Russian | справедливость (equity, impartiality, justice, justness, reason, rectitude, right, righteousness, rightness). (various references) | |
Scottish | gile, b ine (whiteness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poštenje (fair dealing, faithfulness, honesty), lepota (beauty, prettiness, pulchritude). (various references) | |
Spanish | hermosura (handsomeness, loveliness, pulchritude, sightliness). (various references) | |
Swedish | skönhet (beauty, Belle, beuty, charms, concinnity, loveliness, lovely, prettiness, pulchritude), rimlighet (equity, plausibility), rättvisa (equity, justice, justness), opartiskhet (candor, candour, detachment, impartiality), hederlighet (fair dealing, faith, honesty, honorableness, honourableness, integrity), blondhet, ärlighet (fair dealing, honesty, sincerity). (various references) | |
Thai | ความยุติธรรม (justice). (various references) | |
Turkish | tarafsızlık (candor, candour, detachment, equilibrium, equitableness, equity, evenness, fair play, impartiality, indifference, neutralism, neutrality, non committal, objectiveness, objectivity, openness), sarışınlık, insaf (have a heart, mercy, reason), içtenlik (cordiality, faithfulness, heartiness, ingenuousness, sincereness, sincerity, singleness, trueness, unaffectedness, warmth), güzellik (beauty, charms, comeliness, cosmetic, feminene charms, fineness, handsomeness, niceness, prettiness, pulchritude), dürüstlük (conscientiousness, correctitude, correctness, directness, erectness, evenness, faithfulness, honesty, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, probity, rectitude, righteousness, sincereness, sincerity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, truth, uprightness, veracity), beyaz tenlilik, adalet (equitableness, equity, justice, reason), açıklık (aperture, baldness, berth, clarity, clearance, clearness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, directness, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, erectness, evidence, gap, interstice, lightness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, palpability, patency, perspicuity, plainness, preciseness, publicity, rift, roundness, space, spread, straightforwardness, the open, vacancy, yard). (various references) | |
Turkmen | adalat. (various references) | |
Ukranian | справедливість (appropriateness, equality, equity, impartiality, justice, justness, orthopraxy, righteousness, rightfulness), незаплямованість (whiteness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính thẳng thắn (directness, downrightness, frankness, probity, sportiness, sportsmanship, straightforwardness), tính ngay thẳng (candidness, candour, rectitude, simple-heartedness), tính không gian lận tính chất khá, sự không thiên vị; tính lương thiện, sự công bằng. (various references) | |
Welsh | tegwch (beauty), glendid (beauty, cleanness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aequitas, aequitas, equitas, aequitate, aequitatem, aequitatis, directione, directionem, directionis, equitas, iustitia. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | srayanaca. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fairness": fairnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fairness": unfairness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fairness": unfairnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Fairness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cairness, fairen, fairess, Farense, fernness, firness, furness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fairness" (pronounced fe"rnus) |
| 6 | f e" r n u s | unfairness. |
| 5 | -e" r n u s | awareness, rareness. |
| 4 | -r n u s | harness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sanserif. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: arsines, farness, fraises, infares. | |
-2 letters: anises, arisen, arises, arsine, fainer, ferias, fraise, frises, infare, infers, raises, resins, rinses, sanies, sansei, sarins, sarsen, serais, serifs, serins, sirens, snares. | |
-3 letters: afire, airns, anise, arise, arses, arsis, earns, fairs, fanes, fares, fears, feria, ferns, fiars, finer, fines, fires, firns, frass, frena, fries, frise, infer, infra, naifs, nares, naris, nears, neifs, rains, raise, ranis, rases, reifs, reins, resin, rinse, risen, rises, safer, safes, sains, saner, sanes, sarin, saris, sasin, sears, seifs, sensa, serai, serfs, serif, serin, sines, siren, sires, snare. | |
-4 letters: ains, airn, airs, anes, anis, ares, arfs, arse, earn, ears, eras, erns, fain, fair, fane, fans, fare, fear, fens, fern, fess, fiar, fine, fins, fire, firn, firs, frae, ires, naif, near, neif, ness, rain, rani, rase, refs, reif, rein, reis, rias, rife, rifs, rins, rise, safe, sain, sane, sans, sari, sear, seas, seif, seis, sera, serf, sers, sine, sins, sire, sirs, sris. | |
-5 letters: ain, air, ais, ane, ani, are, arf, ars, ass, ear, efs, ens, era, ern, ers, ess, fan, far, fas, fen, fer, fie, fin, fir, ifs, ins, ire, nae, ran, ras, ref, rei, res, ria, rif, rin, sae, sea, sei, sen, ser, sin, sir, sis, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: frailness, sanserifs. | |
+2 letters: craftiness, draftiness, fairnesses, fashioners, franchises, freakiness, raffinoses, refashions, safranines, seafarings, transfixes, unfairness. | |
+3 letters: fantasizers, frailnesses, franchisees, franchisers, franticness, fundraisers, furanosides, manifesters, raffishness, rainforests, sanctifiers, saponifiers. | |
+4 letters: anglerfishes, craftinesses, disfranchise, draftinesses, dwarfishness, enfranchises, familiarness, fatherliness, foremanships, forestations, freakinesses, freakishness, fricasseeing, professional, spearfishing, transferrins, transfigures, transfusible, unfairnesses, wearifulness. | |
+5 letters: disfranchised, disfranchises, fenestrations, fiberglassing, foolhardiness, fractiousness, frankincenses, franticnesses, fraternalisms, freemasonries, passionflower, professionals, raffishnesses, reclassifying, safecrackings, transfections. | |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101001 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a i r n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0069 0072 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067758480718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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