Innocence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, as:
  • n. Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.
  • n. Guiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense.
  • n. Freedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness.
  • n. Lack of worldliness or sophistication; naiveté.
  • n. Lack of knowledge or understanding; ignorance.
  • n. Freedom from harmfulness; inoffensiveness.
  • n. One that is innocent.
  • n. Botany See blue-eyed Mary.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Absence of responsibility for a crime.
  • n. Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
  • n. Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.
  • n. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.
  • n. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense.
  • n. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Harmlessness; innoxiousness: as, the innocence of a neutral article of diet in disease.
  • n. Freedom from moral wrong; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity; sinlessness; artlessness: as, the innocence of childhood; angelic innocence.
  • n. Freedom from legal or specific wrong; absence of particular guilt or taint; guiltlessness: as, the prisoner proved his innocence.
  • n. Freedom from legal taint; absence of illegality: said of things, particularly of property that might be contraband of war: as, the innocence of a cargo or of merchandise.
  • n. Simplemindedness; mental imbecility; want of knowledge or of sense; ignorance or idiocy.
  • n. The bluet, Houstonia cærulea. See Houstonia.
  • n. A pretty American scrophulariaceous plant, Collinsia verna, the flowers of which have the lower lip blue and the upper purple or nearly white.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense
  • n. the quality of innocent naivete
  • n. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
    • Antonym
    complicity    guilt   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sinlessness    purity    blamelessness    harmlessness    innocuousness   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    simplicity    sincerity    humility    tenderness    sweetness   
     
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