Hypertext Webster Gateway: "authenticity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
authenticity
n : undisputed credibility [syn: {genuineness}, {legitimacy}]
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