'Immunity' definitions:
Definition of 'immunity'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust" [syn: unsusceptibility, immunity] [ant: susceptibility, susceptibleness]
noun
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease [syn: immunity, resistance]
noun
The quality of being unaffected by something; "immunity to criticism"
noun
An act exempting someone; "he was granted immunity from prosecution" [syn: exemption, immunity, granting immunity]
Definition of 'Immunity'
From: GCIDE
- Immunity \Im*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Immunities. [L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunit['e]. See Common, and cf. Mean, a.]
- 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'immunity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolution,
- acquired immunity,
- active immunity,
- amnesty,
- antibody,
- antigen,
- artificial immunity,
- assurance,
- blank check,
- carte blanche,
- charter,
- clear sailing,
- congenital immunity,
- copyright,
- diplomatic immunity,
- discharge,
- dispensation,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exoneration,
- familial immunity,
- favor,
- franchise,
- freedom,
- grace,
- grant,
- harmlessness,
- immunity theory,
- immunization,
- immunization therapy,
- immunochemistry,
- immunology,
- immunotherapy,
- impunity,
- indemnity,
- indulgence,
- inherent immunity,
- inherited immunity,
- inoculation,
- insusceptibility,
- invulnerability,
- legislative immunity,
- liberty,
- license,
- natural immunity,
- nolle prosequi,
- non prosequitur,
- nonprosecution,
- nonspecific immunity,
- nonsusceptibility to disease,
- opsonic immunity,
- pardon,
- passive immunity,
- patch test,
- patent,
- permission,
- phagocytic immunity,
- privilege,
- protection,
- racial immunity,
- redemption,
- release,
- remission,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- risklessness,
- safeguard,
- safeness,
- safety,
- scratch test,
- security,
- serotherapeutics,
- serotherapy,
- serum therapy,
- shrift,
- side-chain theory,
- sparing,
- special favor,
- specific immunity,
- stay,
- surety,
- toxin-antitoxin immunity,
- toxin-antitoxin immunization,
- tuberculin test,
- unsusceptibility,
- vaccination,
- vaccine therapy,
- vaccinotherapy,
- warrant
Words containing 'Immunity'
- Immune,
- Immunities,
- Immunize,
- immunization,
- immunized,
- acquired immunity,
- active immunity,
- diplomatic immunity,
- granting immunity,
- immune carrier,
- immune globulin,
- immune reaction,
- immune response,
- immune system,
- immune tolerance,
- immunizing agent,
- innate immunity,
- natural immunity,
- official immunity,
- passive immunity,
- racial immunity,
- sovereign immunity,
- testimonial immunity,
- transactional immunity,
- use immunity,
- humoral immune response,
- immune gamma globulin,
- immune serum globulin,
- immune suppressant drug,
- tetanus immune globulin,
- acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
- cell-mediated immune response