Synonyms for innocence
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : in-uh-suh ns |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn ə səns |
Top 10 synonyms for innocence
- clean hands
- clear conscience
- guilelessness
- immaculateness
- impeccability
- incorruptibility
- incorruption
- inculpability
- inexperience
- ingenuousness
- innocuousness
- innoxiousness
- inoffensiveness
- lack
- nescience
- plainness
- probity
- purity
- righteousness
- simplicity
- sincerity
- sinlessness
- stainlessness
- unaffectedness
- unawareness
- unfamiliarity
- unknowingness
- unsophistication
- unworldliness
- uprightness
- virtue
Définition of innocence
Origin :- mid-14c., "freedom from guilt," from Old French inocence "innocence, purity, chastity" (12c.), from Latin innocentia, from innocens "harmless, blameless" (see innocent). Meaning "lacking in guile or artifice" is from late 14c.
- noun blamelessness
- noun harmlessness, naiveté
- Is there any other wisdom, than true simplicity and innocence?
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- I think this blessing comes from the Divine, by reason of the innocence of his life.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Listen to the voice that tries to win you back to innocence and truth!
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- He wished to be dressed completely in white, as a symbol of his innocence.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- It is natural to goodness and innocence, but not the less is the error a disastrous one.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- If they made less of crime in another, they also made less of innocence from it in themselves!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Yet, despite her innocence, the world would not let her live according to her own conscience.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- She had been convicted of blackmail, and she made no pretense even of innocence.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Such as she had been in her days of innocence, so did she appear this evening.
- Extract from : « John Inglefield's Thanksgiving » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He trembled before this innocence, so ardent and so ingenuous.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
Antonyms for innocence
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