immunity

[Im*mu·ni*ty]

Immunity means exemption or resistance. If you're protected against something, you have immunity to it. Your new silver clothes just might grant you immunity from getting thrown in jail by the fashion police.

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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.

Noun
an act exempting someone; "he was granted immunity from prosecution"

Noun
the quality of being unaffected by something; "immunity to criticism"

Noun
the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust"

Noun
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease


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.


Immunity

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'82. 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.

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.

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Usage Examples

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

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