AUTHENTICITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Undisputed credibility

Synonyms:

authenticity; genuineness; legitimacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)