immunocompetence

1. 1.

   the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen

   Antonymsimmunodeficiency

   Broaderability

Other forms of immunocompetence

plural

immunocompetences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immunocompetence

What does immunocompetence mean?

immunocompetence means "the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen".

How many syllables are in immunocompetence?

immunocompetence has 6 syllables: im-mu-no-com-pe-tence. The stress falls on "com".

What is the opposite of immunocompetence?

The recorded antonyms are immunodeficiency.

Is immunocompetence a common word?

immunocompetence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.