innocence
/ˈɪnəsəns/ noun [U]Definition
NOT GUILTY › when someone is not guilty of a crime: She fought to prove her son's innocence.
NOT EXPERIENCED › when someone does not have much experience of life and does not know about the bad things that happen: the innocence of childhood
(Definition of innocence noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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