noun. The state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, especially.

noun. Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.

noun. Guiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense.

noun. Freedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness.

noun. Lack of worldliness or sophistication; naiveté.

noun. One that is innocent.

noun. A pretty American scrophulariaceous plant, Collinsia verna, the flowers of which have the lower lip blue and the upper purple or nearly white.

noun. Harmlessness; innoxiousness: as, the innocence of a neutral article of diet in disease.

noun. Freedom from moral wrong; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity; sinlessness; artlessness: as, the innocence of childhood; angelic innocence.

noun. Freedom from legal or specific wrong; absence of particular guilt or taint; guiltlessness: as, the prisoner proved his innocence.

noun. 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.

noun. Simplemindedness; mental imbecility; want of knowledge or of sense; ignorance or idiocy.

noun. The bluet, Houstonia cærulea. See Houstonia.

noun. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

noun. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.

noun. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense.

noun. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.

noun. Absence of responsibility for a crime.

noun. Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.

noun. Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.

noun. a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense

noun. the quality of innocent naivete

noun. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

"It removes more than half my misfortune; and I feel as if I could die in peace, now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin."

complicity  guilt  

innocent  

cheerfulness  delicacy  frankness  goodness  gratitude  

agnosticism  artlessness  artlessness  benignancy  benignity