From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Innocence \In"no*cence\, noun [F. innocence, L. innocentia. See {Innocent}.]
1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.
2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. --Shak.
Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence! --Milton.
3. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.
4. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness. --Chaucer. Shak.
Syn: Harmlessness; innocuousness; blamelessness; purity; sinlessness; guiltlessness.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: {artlessness}, {ingenuousness}, {naturalness}]
2: the state of being free from sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil [syn: {purity}, {sinlessness}]
3: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence" [ant: {guilt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "innocence": 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
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