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Authentical vs Genuine - What's the difference?

authentical | genuine |

As adjectives the difference between authentical and genuine

is that authentical is (archaic) authentic while genuine is belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure.

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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    genuine

    English

    (wikipedia genuine)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure.
    • a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials

    Synonyms

    * authentic * real * natural * lubish * true * See also

    Antonyms

    * fake * ingenuine

    Related terms

    * genus

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