natural immunity

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsinnate immunity

   Broaderimmunity

   Narrowerracial immunity

Questions about natural immunity

What does natural immunity mean?

natural immunity means "immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup".

What is another word for natural immunity?

Close synonyms include innate immunity. 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 natural immunity a common word?

natural immunity 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.