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The art of sleeping fine after doing the thing that should keep you up.
means The state of being free from guilt — innocence, or the untroubled feeling of having done nothing wrong.
from Built from 'guilt' (Old English 'gylt', meaning crime or sin, origin itself somewhat murky) plus the negating suffix '-less' and the abstract-noun ending '-ness'. So it's a straightforward stack: guilt, minus, the state of being — innocence constructed by subtraction rather than given its own root word.
- not innocence
- innocence means you didn't do it
- psychopath trait
- clinically, a core marker of psychopathy
- legal cousin
- courts call it exoneration, not a feeling
- toddler default
- kids start here before shame gets installed