different between authenticism vs authentic

English

Etymology

authentic +? -ism

Noun

authenticism (usually uncountable, plural authenticisms)

1. A belief in the superiority of the authentic over the inauthentic.
   • 1994, Allene Cooper, "Science and the Reception of Poetry in Postbellum American Journals," American Periodicals , Vol. 4, p. 44 n4:

     Sinclair Lewis claimed that American letters exemplified a divorce of intellectual life from authenticism and reality.

   • 2006, Jonathan Shull, "Locating the Past in the Present: Living Traditions and the Performance of Early Music," Ethnomusicology Forum, Vol. 15, No. 1, p. 91:

     If performers of Early Music—and especially medieval music—could no longer appeal to an unattainable authenticity, they could nevertheless adhere unabashedly and tenaciously to the values and precepts that spawned authenticism in the first place, namely a comprehension of, and a stalwart respect for, the historical place of their repertoire and the empowerment which accompanies such knowledge.

   • 2007, Megan Swift, "‘The Tale’ and the Novel: Pasternak and the Politics of Genre," Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 49, No. 1/2 (March-June), p. 121:

     Pasternak portrays art as iskusstvo-vran'e, the art that deceives, defending it against Lef's demands for a crude authenticism.

Related terms

• authenticist

English

Alternative forms

• authentical, authentick, authenticke, authentique (all archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English authentik, from Old French autentique, from Latin authenticus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (authentikós, “principal, genuine”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (authént?s, “lord, master”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?.???n.t?k/, /?.???n.t?k/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?.???n.t?k/

Adjective

authentic (comparative more authentic, superlative most authentic)

1. Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

   The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.

2. Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.

   The report was completely authentic.

   an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information

3. (music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
4. (obsolete) authoritative
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy.

Synonyms

• (of the claimed origin): genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked
• (conforming to fact): reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfaked

Antonyms

• (not of the claimed origin): phony, fake; ingenuine, inauthentic, unauthentic

Derived terms

Translations

References

• authentic at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authentic in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authentic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.