Innocence vs. Guilt

Innocencenoun

Absence of responsibility for a crime.

Innocencenoun

Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.

Innocencenoun

Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.

Innocencenoun

(obsolete) Imbecility; mental deficiency.

Innocencenoun

The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

Innocencenoun

The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.

Innocencenoun

The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.

Innocencenoun

Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.

Innocencenoun

the quality of innocent naivete

Innocencenoun

the state of being free from sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

Innocencenoun

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

Innocencenoun

the state, quality, or fact of being innocent of a crime or offence

Innocencenoun

lack of guile or corruption; purity

Innocencenoun

a person's virginity

Innocence

Innocence is a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence is to the lack of legal guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime.

Guiltnoun

Responsibility for wrongdoing.

Guiltnoun

Awareness, feeling of having done wrong; remorse.

Guiltnoun

The fact of having done wrong.

Guiltnoun

(law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

Guiltverb

To commit offenses; act criminally.

Guiltverb

(transitive) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.

Guiltnoun

The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

Guiltnoun

Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

Guiltnoun

A feeling of regret or remorse for having committed some improper act; a recognition of one's own responsibility for doing something wrong.

Guiltnoun

the state of having committed an offense

Guiltnoun

remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offence

Guiltnoun

the fact of having committed a specified or implied offence or crime

Guiltnoun

a feeling of having committed wrong or failed in an obligation

Guiltverb

make (someone) feel guilty, especially in order to induce them to do something