Immanity vs Immunity - What's the difference?
immanity | immunity |
(obsolete) Hugeness, great size.
(obsolete) Enormity, outrageous cruelty or savagery.
*, II.i.4.2:
*:‘Barbarous immanity ’ (Melancthon terms it) ‘and folly to be deplored, so to contemn the percepts of health […].’ (uncountable) The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
# (medicine) Fully protective resistance against infection.
# (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
# (law) An exemption from prosecution.
# (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
(countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
As nouns the difference between immanity and immunity
is that immanity is (obsolete) hugeness, great size while immunity is (uncountable) the state of being insusceptible to something; notably:.immanity
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(immanities)immunity
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- Some people have better immunity to diseases than others.
- Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities .
- The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron.
- After winning the last round the player was granted immunity which allowed him to stay in the game even after receiving the least amount of points.
