1. A state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offence
   "the trial established his innocence"
    
2. The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
   "Some believe in the innocence of newborn infants";
   - purity, pureness, sinlessness, whiteness
    
3. The quality of innocent naiveté
   "Her innocence in matters of politics was both endearing and concerning";
   - artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness
    
4. Californian wild flower with white and lavender to pale-blue flowers
   "innocence bloomed throughout the meadow";
   - purple chinese houses, Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla

Sounds like: innervations, innovatience, innoc

Derived forms: innocences

Type of: condition, naiveness, naiveté, naïveté, naivety, status, wild flower, wildflower

Antonym: guilt

Part of: Collinsia, genus Collinsia

Encyclopedia: Innocence