Immunity
English Meaning
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.
- The quality or condition of being immune.
- Immunology Inherited, acquired, or induced resistance to infection by a specific pathogen.
- Law Exemption from normal legal duties, penalties, or liabilities, granted to a special group of people: legislative immunity.
- Law Exemption from legal prosecution, often granted a witness in exchange for self-incriminating testimony.