Ingenuousness vs Innocence - What's the difference?
ingenuousness | innocence |
Absence of responsibility for a crime.
Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
As nouns the difference between ingenuousness and innocence
is that ingenuousness is the condition of being ingenuous while innocence is absence of responsibility for a crime.innocence
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
