blamelessness
/ˈblām How to pronounce blame (audio)/ (ame, mw)
blamelessness — noun
1. the condition of not deserving blame or fault for something wrong that happened.
the condition of not deserving blame or fault for something wrong that happened.
After the fire drill report, the principal accepted Eitan's blamelessness at once.
accept someone's blamelessness after an investigation
Nora's quiet blamelessness stood out when the missing money was found in the manager's desk.
blamelessness in a missing-money accusation
The coach spoke of Aylin's blamelessness after the team bus hit black ice.
Kasia tried to keep an air of blamelessness while flour covered the kitchen floor.
Eri's blamelessness became clear when the shop camera showed another customer opening the box.
- innocence
the everyday word; also covers purity and lack of worldly experience.
- guiltlessness
very close formal synonym, especially in legal or moral writing.
- faultlessness
shifts toward the absence of mistakes rather than absence of blame.
- culpability
formal opposite meaning responsibility for a wrong.
- blameworthiness
focuses directly on deserving blame.
- guilt
the ordinary opposite in legal or moral contexts.
文法句型
the blamelessness of [person/thing]
someone's blamelessness
用法筆記
Most often used in formal discussion of accidents, mistakes, or moral responsibility. Common after verbs like prove, establish, and maintain, and in patterns such as 'the blamelessness of X'. Less likely than 'innocence' when the focus is a child's purity or lack of experience.