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authentic | rockism |

As an adjective authentic

is of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

As a noun rockism is

a kind of music snobbery that views rock music as normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms.

authentic

English

Alternative forms

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

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
  • The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
  • Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
  • The report was completely authentic .
    an authentic''' writer; an '''authentic''' portrait; '''authentic information
  • (music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
  • (obsolete) authoritative
  • (Milton)

    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

    Derived terms

    * authentically * authenticate * authentication * authenticity * authenticism * authenticist

    rockism

    Noun

    (-)
  • (derogatory) A kind of music snobbery that views rock music as normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms.
  • * 2005 , J. T. LeRoy, Paul Bresnick, Da Capo best music writing 2005 (page 133)
  • You literally can't fight rockism', because the language of righteous struggle is the language of ' rockism itself.
  • * 2008 , Philip Auslander, Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture (page 126)
  • Broadly speaking, rockism is the belief that rock is the most important form of popular music