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AUTHENTICITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undisputed credibility
Synonyms:
authenticity; genuineness; legitimacy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("authenticity" is a kind of...):
believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "authenticity"):
real McCoy; real stuff; real thing (informal usage attributing authenticity)
Derivation:
authentic (not counterfeit or copied)
authentic (conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief)
