immunity
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4.7
- noun
- /ɪˈmjunɪti/
:
inmunidad
- His rigorous training gave him an immunity to the exhaustion that affects most beginners.
- immunity from criticism
- immunity to noise
- immunity of sorts
It's an advantage, right, or immunity not common to others of the human race.
- It's an advantage, right, or immunity not common to others of the human race.
Examples
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But time hadn't given him any immunity from the pain.
Fiction book (1994) -
The immunity I'd enjoyed for so long was gone.
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It's an advantage, right, or immunity not common to others of the human race.
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I have no immunity to it.
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For him, as for many others, a key question of the age was the nature of immunity.
Academic text (2010) -
But it's actually true that herd immunity is a different kind of public good.
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"The respect for education gave, did give, an immunity from the kind of destruction that was around it," Sedney said.
Academic text (2016) -
Other clues come from studies of immunity following chemotherapy.
Academic text (2017) -
By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms.
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There then in Constantinople, that is to say, freedom for Hobbes consists of, as he puts it, immunity from service.
Synonyms
54
4.1
A living thing's ability to survive disease or drugs
43
4.8
Ability to survive in bad conditions like heat or drought
5
7.9
The state of not being able to be harmed in body or feelings
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
15
7.4
A special legal status that stops foreign diplomats from being tried or taxed in the country where they work
- Formal
6
5.6
Official action that stops police or courts from charging someone for a crime
- Specialized
4
3.6
The body's protection from disease that a person has naturally without a vaccine or previous infection
- Formal
1
8.9
A legal protection that stops a witness's forced testimony or evidence from being used to find them guilty
- Specialized
1
4.2
Protection the body develops after meeting a disease or getting a vaccine to prevent future sickness
- Specialized
Protection your body makes using antibodies after an infection or vaccine
- Specialized
Natural protection from disease present at birth without prior exposure
- Specialized
The body's natural defense giving stronger responses after earlier exposure or vaccines
- Specialized
Natural protection against some diseases in many people of the same race or ethnic group
- Formal
Protection that stops a public official being sued for actions taken while doing their job
- Specialized
Temporary protection from disease by receiving antibodies from another person or animal
- Formal
Protection that stops a court using a witness's forced answers or evidence from those answers against them
How Resistant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immunity comes from the Latin immunis, from im- 'not' plus munis 'duty' or 'service'. So if someone has emotional immunity to criticism, they are 'free from' its effect and it does not influence them.