innate immunity

Questions about innate immunity

What is another word for innate immunity?

It depends which innate immunity you mean. In the sense “immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup”, the synonyms are natural immunity. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of innate immunity?

WordNet records no antonym for innate immunity. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for innate immunity come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of innate immunity

• Full entry for innate immunityAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for innate immunityWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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