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authentic (adjective):
1: not false or imitation : real, actual
2: true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character
3a: worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact
b: conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features
c: made or done the same way as an original
4a of a church mode : ranging upward from the keynote
b of a cadence : progressing from the dominant chord to the tonic
5 obsolete : authoritative
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Middle English autentik, auctentyke, borrowed from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French autentik, autentique, borrowed from Medieval Latin autenticus, authenticus, auctenticus “original, genuine (of a document), authoritative, approved by authority,” going back to Latin authenticus “original (of a document),” borrowed from Greek authentikós “warranted as genuine, original, authoritative,” probably from authentía “absolute sway, authority” (from authéntes “doer, master” + -ia -ia entry 1) + -ikos -ic entry ; authéntes, in earlier Greek “killer, murderer, perpetrator of a deed,” from aut- aut- + -hentes, from hen- (going back to Indo-European *sen-, full-grade ablaut of zero-grade *sn-ne-h, whence Greek ánymi, anýnai “to complete, achieve, perpetrate”) + -tes, agent suffix
Authentic was Merriam – Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023.
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