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immunity

noun
/ɪˈmjuːnəti/

Etymology

From Middle English immunite, from Old French immunité, from Latin immūnitās, in the legal sense; for the medical use see immunization. Equivalent to immune + -ity.

  1. derived from immūnitās
  2. derived from immunité
  3. inherited from immunite

Definitions

  1. The state of being insusceptible to something

    The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:

    • Some people have better immunity to diseases than others.

  2. A resistance to a specific thing.

    • Superbugs are bacteria that develop an immunity to antibiotics.

The neighborhood

Derived

absolute immunity, adaptive immunity, alloimmunity, autoimmunity, cell-mediated immunity, chemoimmunity, community immunity, crown immunity, cytoimmunity, derivative use immunity, dysimmunity, herd immunity, heteroimmunity, homoimmunity, humoral immunity, hybrid immunity, hyperimmunity, hypoimmunity, immunifacient, immunity gap, immunize, immuno-, immunology, innate immunity, isoimmunity, neuroimmunity, nonimmunity, qualified immunity, radioimmunity, seroimmunity, social immunity, sovereign immunity, superimmunity, transactional immunity, use immunity

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA