indemnity

1. 1.

   protection against future loss

   Synonymsinsurance

   Broaderprotection
2. 2.

   legal exemption from liability for damages

   Broaderexemption
3. 3.

   a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

   Synonymsdamagesamendsindemnificationrestitutionredress

   Broadercompensation

   Narrowerreliefactual damagesnominal damagespunitive damagesatonement

Other forms of indemnity

plural

indemnities·

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 indemnity

What does indemnity mean?

indemnity means "protection against future loss". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indemnity?

indemnity has 4 syllables: in-dem-ni-ty. The stress falls on "dem". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɛmnəti/.

What is another word for indemnity?

Close synonyms include insurance, damages, amends, indemnification, restitution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indemnity a common word?

indemnity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.