innocence

English

Etymology

French innocence, from Latin innocens (“harmless, inoffensive”).

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈɪnəsn̩s/

Noun

innocence (uncountable)

Absence of responsibility for a crime.
Her attorney managed to convince the jury of her innocence.
Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
In his innocence, he offered the stranger to bring the package to Paris, never suspecting it contained drugs.
Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
Tests have demonstrated the innocence of this substance.

Antonyms

(absence of responsibility for a crime): guilt
(ability to harm): harmfulness

Synonyms

(sensitive subjects): naivety
(ability to harm): harmlessness
(freedom from guilt): unguilt, unguiltness

Related terms

innocent

Translations

absence of responsibility for a crime

Czech: nevina (cs) f
Dutch: onschuld (nl)
Esperanto: senkulpeco (eo)
Finnish: syyttömyys (fi)
French: innocence (fr) f
German: Unschuld (de) f
Greek: αθωότητα (el) (athoótita) f
Hungarian: ártatlanság (hu)
Icelandic: sakleysi (is) n

Korean: please add this translation if you can
Malayalam: നിഷ്കളങ്കത (ml) (nishkaLangkatha)
Polish: niewinność (pl) f
Russian: невинность (ru) (nevínnostʹ) f, невиновность (ru) (nevinóvnostʹ) f
Serbo-Croatian: nȅvīnōst (sh) f, nȅdūžnōst (sh) f
Slovene: nedolžnost (sl) f
Swedish: oskuld (sv) c, oskyldighet (sv) c
Turkish: suçsuzluk (tr)

lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime

Dutch: onschuld (nl)
Finnish: viattomuus (fi)
Greek: αθωότητα (el) (athoótita) f
Hungarian: ártatlanság (hu), naivság (hu)
Icelandic: sakleysi (is) n, barnaskapur (is) m, grandaleysi (is) n

Malayalam: നിഷ്കളങ്കത (ml) (nishkaLangkatha)
Polish: niewinność (pl) f
Russian: невинность (ru) (nevínnostʹ) f
Slovene: nedolžnost (sl) f
Swedish: oskuld (sv) c

lack of ability or intention to harm or damage

Finnish: vaarattomuus (fi)
Greek: αθωότητα (el) (athoótita) f
Hungarian: ártalmatlanság (hu)
Icelandic: meinlaus (is) m and f, meinlaust (is) n, saklaus (is) m and f, saklaust (is) n, skaðlaus (is) m and f, skaðlaust (is) n

Malayalam: നിഷ്കളങ്കത (ml) (nishkaLangkatha)
Polish: niewinność (pl) f
Russian: невинность (ru) (nevínnostʹ) f
Slovene: nedolžnost (sl)
Swedish: harmlöshet (sv) c

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