Dictionary Definition
immunity
Noun
1 the state of not being susceptible;
"unsusceptibility to rust" [syn: unsusceptibility] [ant:
susceptibility]
2 (medicine) the condition in which an organism
can resist disease [syn: resistance]
3 the quality of being unaffected by something;
"immunity to criticism"
4 an act exempting someone; "he was granted
immunity from prosecution" [syn: exemption, granting
immunity]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ɪˈmjuːnəti/, /I"mju:n@ti/
Noun
- The state of being insusceptible to something.
- A resistance to a specific thing.
Translations
the quality of being resistant
- Czech: odolnost, imunita
- German: Immunität
resistance to a specific thing
- German: Immunität
- ttbc Dutch: immuniteit
- ttbc Japanese: (men'eki)
Extensive Definition
Immunity may refer to:
- Immunity (medical), a state of having sufficient biological defenses to avoid infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion, and is related to the functions of the immune system
- Immunity
(legal), conferring a status on a person or body that makes
that person or body free from otherwise legal obligations such as,
for example, liability for damages or punishment for criminal acts
- Transactional immunity, referring to the inability of the prosecutor to prosecute a witness in exchange for the witness's testimony, an action referred to as "turning state's evidence"
- Use immunity, under which the government may not use a witness's grand jury testimony to prosecute that person (but if the state acquires evidence for a crime independent of the testimony, the witness can then be prosecuted)
immunity in Czech: Imunita
immunity in German: Immunität
immunity in Spanish: Inmunidad
immunity in French: Immunité
immunity in Italian: Immunità
immunity in Hebrew: חסינות
immunity in Dutch: Immuniteit
immunity in Russian: Иммунитет
immunity in Slovak: Imunita
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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