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Authentical vs Authentic - What's the difference?

authentical | authentic | Alternative forms |

Authentic is a alternative form of authentical.



As adjectives the difference between authentical and authentic

is that authentical is authentic while authentic is of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

authentical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Authentic.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.12:
  • *:He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall .
  • *, II.33:
  • *:The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witnesse of it, forsomuch as he used the most lascivious meanes that then were in use.

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    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