innocence
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈɪnəsəns/
:
ingenuidad
- Many children enter school with a sense of innocence and curiosity about the world.
- loss of innocence
- lost innocence
- childhood innocence
Once lived and studied and played together in innocence and even love.
- Once lived and studied and played together in innocence and even love.
- This loss of innocence, it's part of the healing process.
- It's the loss of a narrative, a loss of innocence.
- I I, I kind of missed the, the innocence of the beginning of my fight career.
- Your experience of loss, loss of relationship, loss of hope, loss of innocence is real.
- I was an innocent little boy, and I had to remember that innocence and forgive him.
- If you're perpetually surprised and full of wonder and joy, you return to innocence.
- And like when you're around young kids before they get damaged, like they play with such innocence and joy and spontaneity.
- And once I experienced that kind of like low, I feel like I can't go back to that innocence.
- There are some truths where perhaps innocence is and not innocence.
- So obviously that's the innocence is sort of built in.
- So we're not complete innocence in this sort of strange season.
Examples
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What has changed, perhaps, is that dialogical commitment has lost its hopeful innocence of earlier times.
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Before then, you had no concept of the childhood innocence that we know today.
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Your experience of loss, loss of relationship, loss of hope, loss of innocence is real.
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Once lived and studied and played together in innocence and even love.
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Because we want to see the loss of innocence.
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A child is born to innocence.
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This loss of innocence, it's part of the healing process.
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There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.
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It represents the loss of innocence.
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And like when you're around young kids before they get damaged, like they play with such innocence and joy and spontaneity.
Synonyms
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7.9
A lack of experience or good judgment that makes someone easy to trick
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6.1
Lack of experience or common sense that makes someone trust others easily
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8.1
Being trusting and easily fooled because of little experience
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3.9
Being genuine and not showing forced or fake feelings
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9.9
The state of being free from guilt and bad intentions
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6.8
Being simple and honest without trying to seem clever
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8.2
Open and honest without trying to hide anything
A lack of experience and knowledge about how the world works
Antonyms
How Naive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Innocence comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and nocere 'to harm', so think 'no harm' — if you have innocence you often do not know about bad or complex things, which is why it can mean being simple or naive.