NATURAL IMMUNITY

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Meaning:

Immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup

Synonyms:

innate immunity; natural immunity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("natural immunity" is a kind of...):

immunity; resistance ((medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural immunity"):

racial immunity (natural immunity shared by all members of a particular race)