Definitions for Fairness
fair·ness

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.8 / 5 votes

1. fairness, equitynoun

   conformity with rules or standards

   "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim"

2. fairness, fair-mindedness, candor, candournoun

   ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty

3. paleness, blondness, fairnessnoun

   the property of having a naturally light complexion

4. comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousnessnoun

   the quality of being good looking and attractive

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fairnessnoun

   The property of being fair.

   In fairness, I should have asked before I borrowed your car.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fairnessnoun

   Etymology: from fair.

   1. Beauty; elegance of form.

   That which made her fairness much the fairer, was that it was but a fair embassador of a most fair mind, full of wit, and a wit which delighted more to judge itself than to show itself. Philip Sidney.

   2. Honesty; candour; ingenuity.

   There may be somewhat of wisdom, but little of goodness or fairness in this conduct. Francis Atterbury, Sermons, Preface.

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1. fairness

   Fairness is the quality of treating all people equally, without bias or discrimination, and making decisions or judgments in an impartial, unbiased manner. It involves respecting the rights and dignity of all individuals, and providing equal opportunities and resources, regardless of their background or circumstances. Fairness also encompasses objectivity, honesty, justice, and adherence to rules and principles.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Fairnessnoun

   the state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc

Editors ContributionRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. fairness

   The truth, manifestation and quality of being fair.

   They always apply the quality of fairness to everything they do.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 5, 2015  

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1. • Beauty
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1. sanserif

How to pronounce Fairness?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fairness in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fairness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Fairness in a Sentence

1. The Twitter CEO:

   Despite the success we are seeing with our use of algorithms to combat abuse, manipulation, and bad faith actors, we recognize that even a model created without deliberate bias may nevertheless result in biased outcomes, bias can happen inadvertently due to many factors, such as the quality of the data used to train our models. In addition to ensuring that we are not deliberately biasing the algorithms, it is our responsibility to understand, measure, and reduce these accidental biases. This is an extremely complex challenge in our industry, and algorithmic fairness and fair machine learning are active and substantial research topics in the machine learning community.

2. John Yarmuth:

   If you like him, you'll vote for him. If you don't like him, you won't vote for him, in all fairness, I doubt if it will cost him any votes, just like it didn't seem to cost Paul Ryan any votes.

3. Daniel Skowronski:

   We made the immediate decision to forgive all negative client balances where permitted by regulators, from day one, Oanda built its business on fairness and integrity. This is simply how we do business.

4. Jason Hopkins:

   Vera Institute of Justice has an initiative called Safety and Fairness for Everyone, this began several years ago, and it focuses on providing taxpayer-funded legal representation to aliens – even illegal aliens – that are placed in deportation procedures.

5. Van Hollen:

   This data paints a clear – and deeply disturbing – picture of the Trump travel ban, the administration repeatedly swore to the Supreme Court and the American people that this was not a de-facto Muslim ban and that there was a clear waiver process to ensure fairness. That couldn't be further from reality.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fairness
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fairness
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fairness
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fairness