authenticity
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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