| Main Entry: | immunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privilege, exemption |
Synonyms: |
amnesty, charter, exoneration, franchise, freedom, impunity, indemnity, invulnerability, liberty, license, prerogative, protection, release, resistance, right |
| Notes: | impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease |
Antonyms: |
defenselessness, responsibility, susceptibility, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | amnesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon, often by government |
Synonyms: |
absolution, condonation, dispensation, forgiveness, immunity, reprieve |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armament; protection system |
Synonyms: |
aegis, armor, arms, barricade, bastille, bastion, bulwark, buttress, citadel, cover, deterrence, dike, embankment, fastness, fence, fort, fortification, fortress, garrison, guard, immunity, munitions, palisade, parapet, position, protection, rampart, redoubt, resistance, safeguard, security, shelter, shield, stockade, stronghold, trench, wall, ward, warfare, weaponry, weapons |
Antonyms: |
desertion, flight, surrender |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
Synonyms: |
exception, exemption, immunity, indulgence, license, privilege, relaxation, relief, remission, reprieve |
Antonyms: |
denial, veto |
| Main Entry: | exemption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom from a responsibility |
Synonyms: |
absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release |
Antonyms: |
accountability, answerability, liability, responsibility |
| Main Entry: | forgiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon; end of blame |
Synonyms: |
absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, condonation, dispensation, exculpation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, lenience, lenity, mercy, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quarter, quittance, remission, remittal, reprieve, respite, vindication |
Antonyms: |
accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence |
| Main Entry: | franchise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, right |
Synonyms: |
authorization, ballot, charter, exemption, freedom, immunity, patent, prerogative, privilege, suffrage, vote |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | independence, license to do as one wants |
Synonyms: |
abandon, abandonment, ability, bent, carte blanche, compass, discretion, elbowroom, exemption, facility, flexibility, free rein, full play, full swing, immunity, indulgence, laissez faire, latitude, laxity, leeway, liberty, margin, opportunity, own accord, play, plenty of rope, power, prerogative, privilege, profligacy, rampancy, range, rein, right, rope, scope, sweep, swing, unrestraint |
Antonyms: |
captivity, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, limitation, servitude, slavery |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
Synonyms: |
abolition, abolitionism, autarchy, autonomy, citizenship, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, disengagement, disimprisonment, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption, extriction, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, representative government, rescue, salvage, salvation, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty |
Antonyms: |
communism, government, subjection, subordination, suppression |
| Main Entry: | impunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
Synonyms: |
dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, nonliability, permission, privilege, security |
| Notes: | impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease |
Antonyms: |
imprisonment, incarceration |