Authenticity or authentic may refer to:
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Authentication
Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an Logical assertion, assertion, such as the Digital identity, identity of a computer system user. In contrast with iden ...
, the act of confirming the truth of an attribute
Arts and entertainment
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Authenticity in art, ways in which a work of art or an artistic performance may be considered authentic
Music
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Authentic performance, an approach to the performance of classical music
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Authentic Records, a record label
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Authentic mode, a set of pitch organizations used in Gregorian chant
Albums
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''Authenticity'' (album), a 2010 album by The Foreign Exchange
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''Authentic'' (Joey Pearson album)
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''Authentic'' (LL Cool J album)
Other uses
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Authenticity (philosophy)
Authenticity is a concept of personality in the fields of psychology, existential psychotherapy, existentialist philosophy, and aesthetics. In existentialism, authenticity is the degree to which a person's actions are congruent with their valu ...
, a particular way of dealing with the external world, being faithful to internal rather than external ideas
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Authentication (law), evidence proven to be genuine
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SS ''Authenticity'', a coastal tanker
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Authenticity Party, an Egyptian political party
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Authentic (show jumping horse), an Olympic show jumper ridden by Beezie Madden
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Authentic (racehorse)
Authentic (foaled May 5, 2017) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2020 Kentucky Derby and 2020 Breeders' Cup Classic, Breeders' Cup Classic, where he set a new Keeneland track record. He also won the Sham Stakes, San Felip ...
, winner of the 2020 Kentucky Derby
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Message authentication, in information security
See also
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Authenticité (disambiguation)
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Authentic leadership
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Authentic learning
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Counterfeit
A counterfeit is a fake or unauthorized replica of a genuine product, such as money, documents, designer items, or other valuable goods. Counterfeiting generally involves creating an imitation of a genuine item that closely resembles the original ...
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eAuthentication
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Provenance
Provenance () is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, p ...
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Verisimilitude
In philosophy, verisimilitude (or truthlikeness) is the notion that some propositions are closer to being true than other propositions. The problem of verisimilitude is the problem of articulating what it takes for one false theory to be close ...
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