3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Immunity \Im*mun"i*ty\, n.
The state of being insusceptible to poison, the contagion of
disease, etc
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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['e]. 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
immunity
n 1: the state of not being susceptible: "unsusceptibility to
rust"; "immunity to disease" [syn: {unsusceptibility}]
[ant: {susceptibility}]
2: the quality of being unaffected by something "immunity to
criticism"
3: an act exempting someone "he was granted immunity from
prosecution" [syn: {exemption}, {granting immunity}]
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