Innocence's a term used to indicate a general lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, sin, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence refers to the lack of legal guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. Innocence can also refer to a state of unknowing, where one's experience's lesser, in either a relative view to social peers, or by an absolute comparison to a more common normative scale. In contrast to ignorance, it's generally viewed as a positive term, connoting an optimi… (More on Innocence)