Authenticity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Authenticity \Au`then*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. authenticit['e].]
     1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority
        for truth and correctness.
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     2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted


        from the original.
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     Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of
           Christianity, authenticity is often restricted in its
           use to the first of the above meanings, and
           distinguished from qenuineness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "authenticity":
     absolute realism, accomplished fact, actuality, artlessness,
     authoritativeness, bona fideness, calculability, canonicalness,
     canonicity, creativeness, creativity, dependability, factuality,
     fait accompli, faithworthiness, firmness, freshness, genuineness,
     gospel truth, grim reality, historicity, honesty, inartificiality,
     innovation, inventiveness, invincibility, legitimacy, lifelikeness,
     literalism, literality, literalness, naturalism, naturalness,
     newness, nonimitation, not a dream, novelty, objective existence,
     originality, orthodoxicalness, orthodoxism, orthodoxness,
     orthodoxy, photographic realism, predictability, realism, reality,
     realness, reliability, religious truth, right belief, rightness,
     secureness, security, sincerity, solidity, soundness, stability,
     staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, substantiality, the truth,
     traditionalism, true-to-lifeness, trustworthiness, truth,
     truth to nature, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unerringness,
     unfictitiousness, uniqueness, unspeciousness, unspuriousness,
     unsyntheticness, validity, verisimilitude