List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 205

SYNONYMS: injustice, injury, wrong, grievance.
These nouns denote acts or conditions that cause people to suffer hardship or loss undeservedly.

An injustice is a violation of a person's rights; the term can also refer to unfair treatment of another or others: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
An injury is an injustice for which legal redress is available: His injury was the result of an injustice.
Wrong in a legal sense refers to what violates the rights of an individual or adversely affects the public welfare; in a more general sense, however, the word is similar in meaning to but more emphatic than injustice: The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
A grievance is an act or a condition that is regarded by those involved as a wrong that affords cause for complaint: The inmates presented a list of their grievances to the prison warden.