authenticity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: au=then=tic=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

authenticity, n. [Cf. F. authenticité.].

•  The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.  [1913 Webster]
•  Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

authenticity

Truth

N truth, fact, reality, plain fact, plain matter of fact, nature, truth, verity, gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth, orthodoxy, authenticity, veracity, correctness, correctitude, accuracy, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, delicacy, rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality, clockwork precision, conformity to rule, nicety, orthology, ipsissima verba, realism, plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth, nuda veritas, the very thing, not an illusion, real Simon Pure, unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, just the thing, real, actual, veritable, true, right, correct, certain, substantially true, categorically true, definitively true, true to the letter, true as gospel, unimpeachable, veracious, unreconfuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined, realistic, exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so, strict, severe, close, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific, faithful, constant, unerring, curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine, clean-cut, clear-cut, verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated), rigorously true, unquestionably true, true by definition, genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, natural, sound, sterling, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored, in its true colors, pukka, well-grounded, well founded, solid, substantial, tangible, valid, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering, truly, verily, indeed, really, in reality, with truth, certainly, actually, in effect, exactly, ad amussim, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis, ad unguem, to an inch, to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T, au pied de la lettre, neither more nor less, in every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, strictly speaking, the truth is, the fact is, rem acu tetigisti, en suivant la verite, ex facto jus oritur, la verita e figlia del empo, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, crazy people and children tell the truth, nihil est veritatis luce dulcius, veritas nunquam perit, veritatem dies aperit, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.