Synonyms for innocence
ˈɪn ə sənsin·no·cence

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1. innocencenoun

   Absence of responsibility for a crime.

   Her attorney managed to convince the jury of her innocence.

   Antonyms:
   guilt

2. innocencenoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   naivety

3. innocencenoun

   Synonyms:
   harmlessness

   Antonyms:
   harmfulness

4. innocencenoun

   Synonyms:
   unguilt, unguiltness

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1. innocence

   Synonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

   Antonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

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1. innocence

   Synonyms:
   innocuousness, inoffensiveness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, simplicity, purity, sinlessness

   Antonyms:
   hurtfulness, offensiveness, guile, guilt, contamination, corruption, impurity, sinfulness

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1. artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalnessnoun

   the quality of innocent naivete

   Synonyms:
   ingenuousness, naturalness, purity, whiteness, artlessness, sinlessness, pureness

   Antonyms:
   guilt, guiltiness

2. purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whitenessnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   ingenuousness, naturalness, white, purity, whiteness, artlessness, sinlessness, honour, honor, pureness

   Antonyms:
   guiltiness, guilt

3. innocencenoun

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

   "the trial established his innocence"

   Synonyms:
   whiteness, artlessness, purity, sinlessness, pureness, naturalness, ingenuousness

   Antonyms:
   guilt, guiltiness

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1. innocencenoun

   Synonyms:
   harmlessness, inoffensiveness, innocuousness, innoxiousness

2. innocencenoun

   Synonyms:
   guiltlessness, sinlessness, blamelessness, guilelessness, purity

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1. innocencenoun

   Synonyms:
   blamelessness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, inoffensiveness

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1. List of paraphrases for "innocence":

   severus, patent-holder, acquittal

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1. Lewis Power:

   The fight for her innocence will go on regardless, we will maintain this young girl was stripped of her dignity and basic human rights.

2. Chris Fabricant:

   Defense lawyers had sought to have the bite-mark evidence barred from the trial on the grounds that it is scientifically unreliable. The judge’s ruling was “contrary to the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community,” said Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project. “It’s a victory for the Flat Earth Society.”

3. Paul Callan:

   It doesn't strike me as a story that has a tale of innocence or redemption, which is the kind of story you would want to present to the jury if you were using this as a mechanism.

4. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   The United States Attorney General has already stated that these officers of the FIFA executive committee have committed a crime, as though (the) prosecutor is unaware of the presumption of innocence, only a court can find a person guilty or not guilty, and only after that can anyone say anything.

5. Eric Creizman:

   Our client maintained his innocence since day one, so we went to trial and put up the best fight we possibly could, it was a well tried case, an interesting case, because the whole thing was what they could glean from his state of mind from things he did, on the Internet and on the computer.