Immunity

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
 * 2)  Fully protective resistance against infection.
 * Some people have better immunity to diseases than others.
 * 1) (in law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
 * Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities.
 * 1) (in law) An exemption from prosecution.
 * The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron.
 * 1) (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
 * After winning the last round the player was granted immunity which allowed him to stay in the game even after receiving the least amount of points.
 * 1)  A resistance to a specific thing.

Related terms

 * immunize
 * immuno-
 * immunology
 * diplomatic immunity

Adjectives for Immunity
national; glorious; happy; tolerable; various (pi); just; precarious; comparative.

Verbs for Immunity
acquire—; break—; confer—upon; enjoy—; favor with—; grant—; guarantee—; hope for—; induce—; observe—; preserve—; prove—; purchase—; test—; —exempts; —frees; —lasts.

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

Etymology
From immunitas, in the legal sense; the medical use was borrowed from German or French

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Italian: immunità
 * Polish: odporność
 * Russian: иммунитет


 * Armenian: անձեռնմխելիություն
 * Dutch: immuniteit, vrijstelling


 * Finnish: erivapaus
 * German:


 * Armenian: անձեռնմխելիություն
 * Dutch: immuniteit, onschendbaarheid


 * Finnish: syytesuoja
 * German:
 * Italian: immunità


 * Armenian: անձեռնմխելիություն
 * German:


 * Polish: odporność
 * Russian: иммунитет


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