What does immunity mean?

Definitions for immunity
ɪˈmyu nɪ tiim·mu·ni·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unsusceptibility, immunitynoun

    the state of not being susceptible

    "unsusceptibility to rust"

  2. immunity, resistancenoun

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

  3. immunitynoun

    the quality of being unaffected by something

    "immunity to criticism"

  4. exemption, immunity, granting immunitynoun

    an act exempting someone

    "he was granted immunity from prosecution"

Wiktionary

  1. immunitynoun

    The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:

  2. immunitynoun

    A resistance to a specific thing.

  3. Etymology: From immunitas, in the legal sense; the medical use was borrowed from German or French

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Immunitynoun

    Etymology: immunité, French; immunitas, Latin.

    Of things harmless whatsoever there is, which the whole church doth observe, to argue for any man's immunity from observing the same, it were a point of most insolent madness. Richard Hooker.

    Granting great immunities to the commons, they prevailed so far as to cause Palladius to be proclaimed successor. Philip Sidney.

    Simon sent to Demetrius, to the end he should give the land an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to spoil. 1 Mac. xiii. 34.

    The laity invidiously aggravate the rights and immunities of the clergy. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.

    Common apprehensions entertain the antidotal condition of Ireland, conceiving only in that land an immunity from venomous creatures. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

    But this annex'd condition of the crown,
    Immunity from errors, you disown. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. immunity

    Immunity refers to the biological ability of an organism to resist or prevent disease, typically by neutralizing or eliminating foreign substances or cellular components. This process is facilitated by the immune system, which can provide either innate (non-specific) immunity or adaptive (specific) immunity, often developing after exposure to specific pathogens or by vaccination. Immunity can also refer to a legal protection or exemption from certain obligations or penalties.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Immunityadjective

    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. Immunityadjective

    freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error

  3. Etymology: [L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunit. See Common, and cf. Mean, a.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Immunity

    Nonsusceptibility to the invasive or pathogenic effects of foreign microorganisms or to the toxic effect of antigenic substances.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of immunity in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of immunity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of immunity in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Schinecker:

    Since this virus is not well known, one can hypothesise, but the proof will take longer, testing these people ... is key to seeing whether or not people really have developed immunity.

  2. Emily Staub:

    It’s an audacious and mind-boggling idea, i’m not just talking about just him. I’m talking about a whole bunch of people with the Carter Center that decided that they were going to eradicate a disease that has no vaccine, no immunity, no medication. It’s thousands of years old and has a one-year incubation. The odds are totally stacked against you. And the people that suffer from it speak thousands of different languages, and some have never had outsiders interact with them.

  3. Anthony Fauci:

    I think we should expect... that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases. And hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations.

  4. Stacey Plaskett:

    Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice.

  5. Stephen Kissler:

    I do still think it's a potential cause for concern that we may still see a higher case fatality rate and higher hospitalizations for Covid in United States than the UK because of the differences in underlying immunity.

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