Authenticity

English

Noun

Authenticity (plural authenticities)

1. The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
2. Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.
3. (obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).

Adjectives for Authenticity

doubtful; absolute; stylistic: altered; unmistakable; unquestioned; unforgettable.

Verbs for Authenticity

accept—; command—; confirm—; dispute—; doubt—; entitle to—; insure—; profess—; prove—; question—; satisfy with—; stamp with—; testify to—; value—; verify; —holds up ; —stands.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

authentic

Synonyms

• (quality of being genuine): genuineness

Antonyms

• (quality of not being genuine): phoniness; forgery; fakeness; bogosity

Related terms

• authentically

Translations

the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original

Bulgarian: автентичност (bg) (avtentíchnost) f., достоверност (bg) Danish: autenticitet (da) c. Esperanto: aŭtentikeco (eo) Finnish: aitous (fi), oikeellisuus (fi), autenttisuus (fi) French: authenticité (fr) f. German: Authentizität (de) f.

Italian: autenticità (it) f. Portuguese: autenticidade (pt) f. Russian: подлинность (ru) (pódlinnost') f., достоверность (ru) (dostovérnost') f., аутентичность (ru) (autentíčnost') f. Spanish: autenticidad (es) f.

truthfulness of origins

Finnish: aitous (fi)