innocence

Other forms of innocence

plural

innocences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about innocence

What does innocence mean?

innocence means "the quality of innocent naivete". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in innocence?

innocence has 3 syllables: in-no-cence. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnəsəns/.

What is another word for innocence?

Close synonyms include artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness, purity, pureness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of innocence?

The recorded antonyms are guilt.

Is innocence a common word?

innocence is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.