innocences
States of blamelessness
Innocence, a noun form of innocent, is the state of being innocent, or of not being guilty.
Innocence is used in legal contexts in contrast to guilt.
In ordinary contexts, innocence has a more general meaning related to goodness, purity, or inexperience.
The loss of innocence typically refers to the transition from childhood to adulthood.
Having youthful innocence
- naiveteInnocent lack of experience
- guilelessnessAbsence of cunning
- wholesomenessQuality of being good
- simplicityLack of complexity
artlessness · freshness · virginity · cleanness · spotlessness · blamelessness · sinlessness · immaculateness
Verdicts freeing defendants
- exonerationsClearances from accusation
- vindicationsClearings of wrongful accusations
- absolutionsFormal releases from blame
- clearingsTreeless forest spaces
dismissals · pardons · releases · discharges · liberations · freedoms · blamelessness · guiltlessness
Debasements of purity
- awakeningsInstances of regaining consciousness
- disillusionmentBitter loss of faith
- experiencesEvents personally lived through
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
worldliness · knowledge · falls · temptations · Eden · paradise · childhood · youth
childlike
Having youthful innocence
- naiveteInnocent lack of experience
- guilelessnessAbsence of cunning
- wholesomenessQuality of being good
simplicity · artlessness · freshness · virginity · cleanness · spotlessness · blamelessness · sinlessness · immaculateness · unsophistication
acquittals
Verdicts freeing defendants
- exonerationsClearances from accusation
- vindicationsClearings of wrongful accusations
- absolutionsFormal releases from blame
clearings · dismissals · pardons · releases · discharges · liberations · freedoms · blamelessness · guiltlessness · faultlessness
corruptions
Debasements of purity
- awakeningsInstances of regaining consciousness
- disillusionmentBitter loss of faith
- experiencesEvents personally lived through
maturation · worldliness · knowledge · falls · temptations · Eden · paradise · childhood · youth · coming-of-age
innocencesguilts
Manipulates through conscience
culpabilities · blameworthiness · criminalities · liabilities · faults
innocencescorruptions
Debasements of purity
depravities · wickednesses · impurities · vices · perversions
innocencessophistications
Advanced complexity or worldliness
experiences · knowingness · disillusionment · street smarts · cynicism
- loss of innocenceEnd of childhood naivety
- childhood innocenceUntainted early-life simplicity
- innocence lostEnd of naivety
- lost innocencePurity destroyed by experience
- youthful innocenceUncorrupted state of childhood
- presumption of innocenceDefault legal blamelessness