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Noun: innocence  i-nu-sun(t)s
  1. A state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offence
    "the trial established his innocence"
     
  2. The quality of innocent naiveté
    - artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness
     
  3. The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
    - purity, pureness, sinlessness, whiteness
     
  4. Californian wild flower with white and lavender to pale-blue flowers
    - 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