About The Word Immunity
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Immunity
Immunity Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Immunity?
[n] an act exempting someone; "he was granted immunity from prosecution"
[n] the quality of being unaffected by something; "immunity to criticism" [n] the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust" [n] (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease Synonyms | Synonyms for Immunity: exemption | granting immunity | resistance | unsusceptibility Related Terms | Find terms related to Immunity: 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 See Also | acquired immunity | condition | discharge | exemption | fix | freedom | innate immunity | invulnerability | natural immunity | release | status | waiver Immunity In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
\Im*mun"i*ty\, n. The state of being insusceptible to poison, the contagion of disease, etc. |
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