authenticity

English

Etymology

authentic +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

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.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], 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).

Synonyms

• (quality of being genuine): genuineness

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• certificate of authenticity

Related terms

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

Translations

the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: autenticidá f
• Belarusian: аўтэнты́чнасць f (aŭtentýčnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: автенти́чност (bg) f (avtentíčnost), достоверност (bg) (dostovernost)
• Catalan: autenticitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本真性

• Danish: autenticitet (da) c, ^{(please verify)} ægthed c
• Dutch: authenticiteit (nl) f, echtheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: aŭtentikeco (eo)
• Finnish: aitous (fi), oikeellisuus (fi), autenttisuus (fi)
• French: authenticité (fr) f
• Galician: autenticidade (gl) f
• German: Authentizität (de) f
• Hungarian: hitelesség (hu)
• Indonesian: autentisitas (id)
• Irish: barántúlacht f, fíordheimhneacht f, údaracht f
• Italian: autenticità (it) f
• Japanese: 真実味
• Latvian: īstums m
• Malayalam: ആധികാരികത (ādhikārikata)
• Maori: hāponotanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: autentisitet (no) m

  Nynorsk: autentisitet m

• Polish: autentyczność (pl) f, autentyka (pl) f, autentyzm (pl) m, prawdziwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: autenticidade (pt) f
• Romanian: autenticitate (ro) f
• Russian: по́длинность (ru) f (pódlinnostʹ), достове́рность (ru) f (dostovérnostʹ), аутенти́чность (ru) f (autɛntíčnostʹ)
• Sicilian: autinticità f
• Spanish: autenticidad (es) f
• Swedish: autenticitet (sv)
• Ukrainian: автенти́чність (uk) f (avtentýčnistʹ)
• Yiddish: אויטענטישקייט f (oytentishkeyt)

See also

• authenticity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia