authenticity n : undisputed credibility [syn: genuineness, legitimacy]

English

Etymology

Greek: αυθεντικός, from authentes = author

Noun

1. the quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
3. truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions; not a copy or forgery.

Translations

• Esperanto: aŭtentikeco
• French: authenticité
• German: Authentizität
• Italian: autenticità
• Spanish: autenticidad

Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions.

Authenticity or Authentic may refer to:

• Authentication, having passed the tests thereof
• Authenticity (philosophy), a particular way of dealing with the external world, being faithful to internal rather than external ideas
• Authentic performance refers to a movement in classical movement also known as historically informed performance
• Authenticity (reenactment), in historical reenactment, a measure of how close an item, prop, action, weapon, or custom is, to what would actually have been used or done in the time period being depicted
• Authentic (album), an album by Chris Tomlin
• Authentic (Joey Pearson album)
• Authentic Records, a record label
• Authentic (software), payments platform software from Alaric International

See also

• Provenance
• Verisimilitude
• Counterfeit

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