Immunity
WordNet

noun


(1)   An act exempting someone
"He was granted immunity from prosecution"
(2)   The quality of being unaffected by something
"Immunity to criticism"
(3)   The state of not being susceptible
"Unsusceptibility to rust"
(4)   (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
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Etymology


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

Noun



  1. The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
    1. Fully protective resistance against infection
    2. (in law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services
      Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities.
    3. (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.
  2. A resistance to a specific thing.
 
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