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immunity - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | immunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privilege, exemption |
| Synonyms: | amnesty, charter, exoneration, franchise, freedom, impunity, indemnity, liberty, license, prerogative, protection, release, resistance, right, invulnerability |
| Notes: | impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease |
| Antonyms: | responsibility, susceptibility, defenselessness, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | amnesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon, often by government |
| Synonyms: | absolution, dispensation, forgiveness, immunity, reprieve, condonation |
| Main Entry: | exemption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom from a responsibility |
| Synonyms: | absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release |
| Antonyms: | accountability, liability, responsibility, answerability |
| Main Entry: | forgiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon; end of blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, dispensation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, mercy, quarter, remission, reprieve, respite, vindication, condonation, exculpation, lenience, lenity, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quittance, remittal |
| 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: | impunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, permission, privilege, security, nonliability |
| Antonyms: | imprisonment, incarceration |
| Main Entry: | indifference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of feeling, interest |
| Synonyms: | alienation, apathy, carelessness, cold shoulder*, coolness, detachment, disdain, disregard, equity, immunity, impartiality, inattention, inertia, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, aloofness, callousness, cold-bloodedness, coldness, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, heedlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, insensitivity, insouciance, isolationism, noninterference, unmindfulness |
| Antonyms: | compassion, concern, feeling, interest, involvement, regard, sympathy, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, sovereignty, suffrage, autarchy, enfranchisement, power of choice, self-determination, self-government, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint |
| Main Entry: | prerogative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, privilege |
| Synonyms: | advantage, appanage, authority, birthright, choice, claim, due, exemption, immunity, liberty, perquisite, sanction, title, droit |
| Antonyms: | duty, obligation |
| Main Entry: | privilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, due |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, appanage, appurtenance, authority, authorization, benefit, birthright, boon, chance, charter, claim, concession, event, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, grant, immunity, liberty, license, opportunity, perquisite, prerogative, right, sanction, entitlement |
| Antonyms: | detriment, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | refuge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place to hide, have privacy |
| Synonyms: | ambush, anchorage, asylum, cover, covert, den, escape, exit, expedient, fortress, harbor, haven, hideaway, hideout, hole, home, immunity, ivory tower*, makeshift, opening, outlet, port, preserve, protection, recourse, resort, resource, retreat, sanctuary, security, shelter, shield, stopgap*, stronghold, way out, harborage, hiding place, safe place |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | respite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, suspension in activity |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather*, breathing space*, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay, deliverance, discharge, downtime*, ease, five*, forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup*, lull, moratorium, pardon, postponement, recess, relaxation, release, relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten*, time, truce, exculpation, interregnum, protraction, time out |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | safety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection from harm |
| Synonyms: | assurance, asylum, cover, defense, freedom, immunity, refuge, sanctuary, security, shelter, impregnability, inviolability, invulnerability, safeness |
| Antonyms: | danger, exposure, jeopardy, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armament; protection system |
| Synonyms: | aegis, armor, arms, barricade, bastion, bulwark, buttress, citadel, cover, dike, embankment, fastness, fence, fort, fortification, fortress, garrison, guard, immunity, munitions, palisade, parapet, position, protection, rampart, resistance, safeguard, security, shelter, shield, stockade, stronghold, trench, wall, ward, warfare, bastille, deterrence, redoubt, weaponry, weapons |
| Antonyms: | desertion, flight, surrender |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | independence, license to do as one wants |
| Synonyms: | abandon, ability, bent, carte blanche, compass, discretion, exemption, facility, flexibility, free rein*, immunity, indulgence, latitude, laxity, leeway, liberty, margin, opportunity, play, power, prerogative, privilege, range, rein, right, rope*, scope, sweep, swing, abandonment, elbowroom*, full play, full swing, laissez faire, own accord, plenty of rope, profligacy, rampancy, unrestraint |
| Antonyms: | captivity, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, limitation, servitude, slavery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | license |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, permission |
| Synonyms: | authorization, carte blanche*, certificate, charter, consent, dispensation, exemption, freedom, go-ahead*, grant, green light*, immunity, independence, latitude, leave, liberty, okay*, permit, privilege, right, ticket, warrant, entitlement, self-determination, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | ban, prohibition, refusal, withholding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privilege |
| Synonyms: | advantage, appanage, authority, benefit, birthright, business, claim, comeuppance, desert, deserving, due, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, immunity, interest, liberty, license, merit, permission, perquisite, power, preference, prerogative, priority, title |
| Main Entry: | security |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | safety, protection |
| Synonyms: | aegis, agreement, armament, armor, asylum, bail, bond, care, collateral, compact, contract, covenant, cover, custody, defense, earnest, freedom, guarantee, guard, immunity, insurance, pact, pawn, pledge, precaution, preservation, promise, redemption, refuge, retreat, safeguard, safekeeping, salvation, sanctuary, shelter, shield, surety, surveillance, token, ward, warrant, safeness, safety measure |
| Antonyms: | danger, insecurity, peril, trouble |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
| Synonyms: | abolition, autonomy, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, emancipation, exemption, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, rescue, salvage, salvation, sovereignty, abolitionism, autarchy, citizenship, disengagement, disimprisonment, enfranchisement, extriction, representative government, self-determination, self-government |
| Antonyms: | communism, government, subordination, suppression, subjection |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
| Synonyms: | exception, exemption, immunity, indulgence, license, privilege, relaxation, relief, remission, reprieve |
| Antonyms: | denial, veto |
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