authenticity

From authentic +‎ -ity.

• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/, /ɑθənˈtɪsɪti/, [ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪɾi], [ɑθənˈtɪsɪɾi]

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authenticity (usually uncountable, plural authenticities)

1. The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original, of having the same origin (or attribution, commitment, intention, etc.) as claimed.

   I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.

   The authenticity of this painting is questionable.

   • 2016 February 2, Jeb Lund, “The Electability Spin Machine”, in Rolling Stone‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 September 2018:

     This is the dim path where […] a legitimate candidate of the working class will be hammered over and over in an authenticity battle with a campaign that weekly releases some “How do you do, fellow kids?” embarrassment and whose Instagram manager is a woman with her own HBO series.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[2], page 2:

     Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.

2. (obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).

• (quality of being genuine): genuineness

• (antonym(s) of “quality of not being genuine”): phoniness; forgery; fakeness; bogosity

• authentically
• authentication
• authenticism
• authenticness (archaic)
• authentification

• authenticity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia