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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Authenticity \Au`then*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. authenticit['e].]
The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
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Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1760; see authentic + -ity. Earlier form was authentity (1650s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. 2 Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions. 3 (context obsolete English) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
WordNet
n. undisputed credibility [syn: genuineness, legitimacy]
Wikipedia
Authenticity is a technical term used in psychology as well as existentialist philosophy and aesthetics (in regards to various arts and musical genres). In existentialism, authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one's own personality, spirit, or character, despite external pressures; the conscious self is seen as coming to terms with being in a material world and with encountering external forces, pressures, and influences which are very different from, and other than, itself. A lack of authenticity is considered in existentialism to be bad faith.
The concept of authenticity is often raised in the punk rock and heavy metal musical subcultures, in which people or bands are criticized for their purported lack of authenticity by being labeled with the epithet " poseur". There is also a focus on authenticity in music genres such as "... house, grunge, garage, hip-hop, techno, and showtunes".
Authenticity concerns the truthfulness of origins, attributes, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions.
Authenticity or authentic may refer to:
- Authentication, having passed the tests thereof
- Authenticity (philosophy), a particular way of dealing with the external world, being faithful to internal rather than external ideas
- Authenticity in art, either nominal or expressive
- Authentic performance refers to a movement in classical music also known as historically informed performance
- Authenticity (living history), in a living history presentation, or in a historical reenactment, a measure of how close an item of material culture, or a person's action, is to the known records concerning what was used or done in the time period being depicted
- Authentic Records, a record label
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, a coastal tanker
- Authentic (horse) an Olympic show jumper ridden by Beezie Madden
- Message authentication in information security
- Authenticity (Foreign Exchange album), the third album by the Foreign Exchange
- Authentic (Chris Tomlin album)
- Authentic (Joey Pearson album)
- Authentic (LL Cool J album)
- Authenticity Party, an Egyptian political party
- Authentic leadership
Authenticity is the third studio album from the R&B/ hip hop duo The Foreign Exchange. It was released on October 12, 2010. All songs were produced by Nicolay, while Fight For Love was co-produced with Zo!
Guests on the album include Darien Brockington, YahZarah, Jesse Boykins III, Zo!, Chantae Cann, and Median.
In historical reenactment, authenticity (sometimes referred to as the A-factor or simply A) is a measure of how close an item, prop, action, weapon, or custom is to what would actually have been used or done in the time period being depicted.
For example, in most northern European medieval reenactment cotton is an inauthentic material—as opposed to wool or linen—though it would be authentic in more modern periods and events, such as American Civil War reenactment or World War II reenactment. Likewise, pop culture references and talking about modern events or objects (e.g., wrist watches, mobile phones, or President Barack Obama) is inauthentic.
Generally, the ratio of events and groups enforcing strict authenticity to those permitting (limited) inauthenticity among the participating reenactors is estimated to be half-half, i.e., there are approximately as many groups enforcing historical accuracy as there are permitting a more liberal use of the term "authentic". This does, however, vary from country to country.
Usage examples of "authenticity".
Peers extend to each other would have included avoiding the introductions of anachronisms into a mansion famed for its authenticity.
The sham of authenticity that discounts authorial involvement and intrusion is back in force in this novel written in the 1790s and published at the turn of the century.
Further proof could scarcely be needed, but Baschet has done more than prove the authenticity, he has proved the extraordinary veracity, of the Memoirs.
We would perhaps no longer be reading the authentic Sartre, but this move might provide an opportunity to depart from the metaphysical negativity of authenticity and bad faith that linger as symptoms of the limitations of existentialism, and to see how Sartre contributes to the power of Nietzsche in philosophy today.
The question of my passports must have been a mere pretext, for eight or ten days would have sufficed to send them to Madrid and have them back again if their authenticity had been doubted.
He was a poster boy Rasta and his own authenticity was what had alerted Spider to the fact he was a fake.
During all this time people have been discussing the authenticity and the truthfulness of the Memoirs, they have been searching for information about Casanova in various directions, and yet hardly any one has ever taken the trouble, or obtained the permission, to make a careful examination in precisely the one place where information was most likely to be found.
For a moment Dasaratha thought he was about to sketch a mantra in the air, blasting the second Vishwamitra to ashes, proving his own authenticity.
The thermoluminescence test was the benchmark of authenticity for all articles made of fired clay.
The consequence was that of those scenes, in the form of a husband, a father, a son, or a brother, a living history was to be found in every family--a history bearing the indubitable testimonies of its own authenticity, in the limbs mangled, in the scars of wounds received, in the midst of the very scenes related--a history, too, that could be read and understood alike by all, the wise and the ignorant, the learned and the unlearned.
Apostles, the authenticity of the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite and of the letter of Christ to King Abgarus, preserved and credited by Eusebius.
During all this time people have been discussing the authenticity and the truthfulness of the Memoirs, they have been searching for information about Casanova in various directions, and yet hardly any one has ever taken the trouble, or obtained the permission, to make a careful examination in precisely the one place where information was most likely to be found.
Here again we have an illustration of an incident - of dubious authenticity - demonstrating to the public the utter, utter unspeakable evilness of drugs and those who use them.
Time and moths had lent these standards a gauzelike authenticity while rust had etched a handiwork into the suited armour and armoury that they had never possessed when he had bought them.
Red Sox cap on the visiting Syrian Satellite pro, and the Syrian Satellite pro sits with most of the prorec-tors, looking confused, his shoulder taped up with a heatable compress, being polite about the comparative authenticity of Mrs.