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 assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicat ...
, the act of confirming the truth of an attribute
Arts and entertainment
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Authenticity in art
Authenticity in art is manifest in the different ways that a work of art, or an artistic performance, can be considered authentic. The initial distinction is between ''nominal authenticity'' and ''expressive authenticity''. In the first sense, n ...
, 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
Authentic Records is an independent record label based in Des Moines, Iowa. It was created by the band The Nadas and has signed a number of rock artists, particularly in the Midwest.
The label currently distributes music from The Nadas, Jon Pe ...
, a record label
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Authentic mode
A Gregorian mode (or church mode) is one of the eight systems of pitch organization used in Gregorian chant.
History
The name of Pope Gregory I was attached to the variety of chant that was to become the dominant variety in medieval western and ...
, a set of pitch organizations used in Gregorian chant
Albums
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''Authenticity'' (Foreign Exchange 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 his or her ...
, a particular way of dealing with the external world, being faithful to internal rather than external ideas
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SS ''Authenticity'', a coastal tanker
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Authenticity Party
The Authenticity Party ( ar, حزب الأصالة, ''ḥizb el-asala'') is one of the political parties created in Egypt after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. It has an ultra-conservative Islamist Salafist ideology, which believes in implementi ...
, 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 Breeders' Cup Classic, where he set a new Keeneland track record. He also won the Sham Stakes, San Felipe Stakes, and Haskell In ...
, 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
Authentic leadership, while having no formal or unequivocal definition, is a growing field in academic research.Gardner, W.L., Cogliser, C.C., Davis, K.M., & Dickens, M.P. (2011). Authentic leadership: A review of the literature and research agenda ...
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Authentic learning
In education, authentic learning is an instructional approach that allows students to explore, discuss, and meaningfully construct concepts and relationships in contexts that involve real-world problems and projects that are relevant to the learner ...
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Counterfeit
To counterfeit means to imitate something authentic, with the intent to steal, destroy, or replace the original, for use in illegal transactions, or otherwise to deceive individuals into believing that the fake is of equal or greater value tha ...
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eAuthentication
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French ''provenir'', 'to come from/forth') 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 i ...
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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 clos ...
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