Hypertext Webster Gateway: "immunity"

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) 1.7 (wn)

immunity
n 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}]


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