AUTHENTICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authenticity mean? 

• AUTHENTICITY (noun)
  The noun AUTHENTICITY has 1 sense:

1. undisputed credibility

  Familiarity information: AUTHENTICITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHENTICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undisputed credibility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

authenticity; genuineness; legitimacy

Hypernyms ("authenticity" is a kind of...):

believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "authenticity"):

real McCoy; real stuff; real thing (informal usage attributing authenticity)

Derivation:

authentic (not counterfeit or copied)

authentic (conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief)

 Context examples 

If this young person should produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)