impunity

Main Entry:
impunity [im-pyoo-ni-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom
Synonyms: dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, nonliability, permission, privilege, security
Notes: impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease
Antonyms: imprisonment, incarceration
Main Entry: forgiveness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pardon; end of blame
Synonyms: absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, condonation, dispensation, exculpation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, lenience, lenity, mercy, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quarter, quittance, remission, remittal, reprieve, respite, vindication
Antonyms: accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence
Main Entry: freedom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political independence
Synonyms: abolition, abolitionism, autarchy, autonomy, citizenship, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, disengagement, disimprisonment, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption, extriction, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, representative government, rescue, salvage, salvation, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty
Antonyms: communism, government, subjection, subordination, suppression
Main Entry: immunity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: privilege, exemption
Synonyms: amnesty, charter, exoneration, franchise, freedom, impunity, indemnity, invulnerability, liberty, license, prerogative, protection, release, resistance, right
Notes: impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease
Antonyms: defenselessness, responsibility, susceptibility, vulnerability
Related Words
Main Entry: exemption
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
devoid of, exempt from, not having, unacquired, unblest with, unobtained, unpossessed, unpossessed of, untenanted, without, without an owner
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [more]. Exemption.
Category: 1. Moral obligations
Synonyms:
-nouns
exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation.
-verbs
be exempt, exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve (forgive); exonerate (exculpate); save the necessity.
-adjectives
exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released; unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable.
-phrases
bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis [Syrus].
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Forgiveness.
Category: 2. Retrospective sympathetic affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve., conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation (pacification); propitiation., excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation (acquittal)., longanimity, placability; amantium irae; locus paenitentiae; forbearance.
-verbs
forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury., excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront., let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit., beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel (pacify); let the wound heal.
-adjectives
forgiving, placable, conclliatory,., forgiven; unresented, unavenged, unrevenged.
-adverbs
cry you mercy.
-phrases
veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Horace]; more in sorrow than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner; "the offender never pardons" [Herbert].
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Freedom.
Synonyms:
-nouns
freedom, liberty, independence; license (permission); facility., scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall., franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen., autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]., immunity, exemption; emancipation (liberation); enfranchisement, affranchisement., free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne, mortmain., bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.
-verbs
be free; have scope, have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself., take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave., set free (liberate); give a loose to (permit); allow scope to, give scope to; give a horse his head., make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise., laisser faire, laisser aller; live and let live; leave to oneself; leave alone, let alone.
-adjectives
free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself., in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled., unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled., unrestricted, unlimited, unconditional; absolute; discretionary (optional)., unassailed, unforced, uncompelled., unbiassed, spontaneous., free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished.
-adverbs
-phrases
ubi libertas ibi patria.
Antonyms: subjection
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