loss of innocence

NOUN

fault

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blunder crime defect error failing flaw guilt indiscretion lapse liability misconduct miscue misdeed negligence offense omission oversight responsibility transgression weakness wrong wrongdoing

STRONG

accountability answerability culpability delinquency dereliction foible frailty impropriety inaccuracy infirmity malfeasance malpractice misdemeanor onus slip slipup solecism trespass vice

WEAK

evildoing peccancy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

accuracy advantage behavior care correction good deed irresponsibility kindness obedience perfection remembrance right strength strong point success

STRONG

correctness propriety

WEAK

benefit blessing good soundness

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Perhaps, as with other technology, it brings a loss of innocence.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Trefry adds that it’s also “about the loss of innocence and coming of age and how you are changed and ruined and saved by these formative events that happened in high school.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023

Both your feature and your short featuring Julija are films about the loss of innocence.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022

More than the loss of innocence, it was the wanton destruction of innocence that most concerned him thematically.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

I was now fourteen; it is the misery of man that he arrives at understanding through the loss of innocence.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

loss of innocence

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