Immunity
[ɪ'mjuːnɪtɪ] or [ɪ'mjʊnəti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being unaffected by something; 'immunity to criticism'.
(noun.) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease.
Inputed by Kurt--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
Edited by Eileen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Freedom, exemption, release, exoneration.[2]. Privilege, prerogative, right, liberty, charter, franchise.
Editor: Stu
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cruelty, atrocity, savagery, ferocity, truculence
ANT:Mildness, gentleness, tenderness, docility, mansuetude
SYN:Exemption, dispensation, freedom, privilege
ANT:Liability, obligation, jurisdiction, impost, burden, amenability
Edited by Clare
Examples
- I would not buy hope of immunity by so cowardly a desire even if I hated him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He conjectured that in vaccinal immunity the virus is accompanied by a substance which makes the nervous tissue unfavorable for the development of the mic robe. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A number of contumeliously defiant infringers in various cities based fond hopes of immunity upon the success of this Goebel evidence, but were defeated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For her I could not lament, so much I envied her enjoyment of the sad immunities of the grave. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It made everyone feel the immunities of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I will appeal to Rome against thee, said the Grand Master, for usurpation on the immunities and privileges of our Order. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Nora