Definition of Authentic

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Authentic

Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register.

Authoritative.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.

An original (book or document).

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Authentic Quotations

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Jerry Garcia

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Keanu Reeves

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
Alan Alda

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John Le Carre

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
Hans Kung

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Authentic Translations

authentic in Dutch is echt, authentiek, waar, onvervalst
authentic in French is authentique
authentic in Norwegian is autentisk, ekte

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