Innocence

Noun

 * 1) Absence of responsibility for a crime.
 * Her attorney managed to convince the jury of her innocence.
 * 1) Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
 * In his innocence, he offered the stranger to bring the package to Paris, never suspecting it contained drugs.
 * 1) Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
 * Tests have demonstrated the innocence of this substance.

Antonyms

 * guilt
 * harmfulness

Synonyms

 * naivety
 * harmlessness

Related terms

 * innocent

Adjectives for Innocence
harmless; loveliest; virgin; extreme; spotless; intrinsic; recognized; inviolable; unsuspecting; helpless; strange; fulsome; unabashed; childish; deliberate; despairing; injured; elaborate; pretended; starry; lofty; conscious; departed; primitive; heavenly; gentle; hapless.

Verbs for Innocence
assert—; betray—; commend—; despoil—; feign—; guard—; hallow—; immortalize—; jeopardize—; maintain—; plead—; prey on —; protest—; prove—; seduce—; smile in -; vindicate—.

Thesaurus
agnosticism, artlessness, benignancy, benignity, blankmindedness, blotlessness, bluffness, bluntness, callowness, candor, chastity, childlikeness, cleanliness, cleanness, directness, empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, harmlessness, hiatus of learning, honor, hurtlessness, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, immaculacy, immaculateness, inanity, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, inoffensiveness, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nescience, obscurantism, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, purity, rawness, sexual innocence, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, snowiness, spotlessness, stainlessness, tabula rasa, taintlessness, trustfulness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness, unfamiliarity, unguardedness, uninjuriousness, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unobnoxiousness, unripeness, unsoiledness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, unsuspiciousness, untaintedness, unwariness, vacuity, vacuousness, virtue, virtuousness, whiteness

Translations

 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: syyttömyys
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Malayalam: നിഷ്കളങ്കത (nishkaLangkatha)
 * Slovene: nedolžnost
 * Swedish: oskuld, oskyldighet


 * Dutch: onschuld
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:, αγνότητα,
 * Hungarian:, naivság


 * Icelandic: sakleysi, barnaskapur , grandaleysi
 * Malayalam: നിഷ്കളങ്കത (nishkaLangkatha)
 * Slovene: nedolžnost
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ártalmatlanság
 * Icelandic: meinlaus, meinlaust ; saklaus , saklaust ; skaðlaus , skaðlaust


 * Malayalam: നിഷ്കളങ്കത (nishkaLangkatha)
 * Slovene: nedolžnost
 * Swedish: harmlöshet


 * : innocenza
 * : ionracas, neo-chiontachd , neo-choireachd

Noun

 * 1) innocence

Related terms

 * innocent