urettet

Urettet is a term found in Norwegian-language discourse used to describe injustices or wrongs that have not been corrected or addressed. It can function as an adjective meaning unrectified or uncorrected and is sometimes used in noun phrases such as urettet forhold to denote situations characterized by unresolved injustice. The formation combines the negating prefix u- with rett, meaning right or justice, and the related verb stem rette, to set right.

Historically, urettet appears in older legal and philosophical writings and has continued to surface in modern discussions of social justice, especially when contrasting unresolved harms with efforts to remedy them. In contemporary use, the term is relatively rare in everyday speech and more common in academic, legal, or literary contexts where emphasis is placed on structural or systemic issues requiring redress.

In practice, urettet is often employed to discuss conditions where redress is still needed or where there is a perceived failure to rectify past harms. It may be used to critique policies, governance, or social arrangements that perpetuate unfairness. The concept is closely related to, but distinct from, terms like urett (injustice) and urettferdighet (unfairness), and it is often paired with retting or oppgjør (rectification or settlement) in argumentation about change.

See also: injustice, unfairness, redress, reform, social justice.