innocence
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Pronunciation[change]
- IPA: /ˈɪnəsn̩s/
Homophones[change]
- innocents (with some accents)
Noun[change]
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Plural |
(uncountable)
- The quality of being innocent.
- I miss the innocence I lost growing up.
- He claims his innocence even after being in prison for years.
- (informal) It is common to call learning about sex (or having sex for the first time) as "loosing innocence."
- She lost her innocence when she was seventeen.
