Innocence vs Vulnerability - What's the difference?
innocence | vulnerability |
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.
(uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
(countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
(computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security
As nouns the difference between innocence and vulnerability
is that innocence is absence of responsibility for a crime while vulnerability is susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.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.}}
Antonyms
* (absence of responsibility for a crime) guilt * (absence of ability to harm) harmfulnessSynonyms
* (lack of sensitive subjects) naivety * (absence of ability to harm) harmlessness * (freedom from guilt) unguilt, unguiltnessvulnerability
English
(wikipedia vulnerability)Noun
- The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.