[syn: exemption, immunity, granting immunity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
[1913 Webster]
3. The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain
poisons, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
immunity
n 1: the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to
rust" [syn: unsusceptibility, immunity] [ant:
susceptibility, susceptibleness]
2: (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist
disease [syn: immunity, 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, immunity, granting
immunity]