Authenticism vs Authenticity - What's the difference?
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A belief in the superiority of the authentic over the inauthentic.
* 1994 , Allene Cooper, "Science and the Reception of Poetry in Postbellum American Journals," American Periodicals , Vol. 4, p. 44 n4:
* 2006 , Jonathan Shull, "Locating the Past in the Present: Living Traditions and the Performance of Early Music," Ethnomusicology Forum , Vol. 15, No. 1, p. 91:
* 2007 , Megan Swift, "‘The Tale’ and the Novel: Pasternak and the Politics of Genre," Canadian Slavonic Papers , Vol. 49, No. 1/2 (March-June), p. 121:
The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.
(obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
Authenticity is a related term of authenticism.
As nouns the difference between authenticism and authenticity
is that authenticism is a belief in the superiority of the authentic over the inauthentic while authenticity is the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.authenticism
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Sinclair Lewis claimed that American letters exemplified a divorce of intellectual life from authenticism and reality.
- If performers of Early Music—and especially medieval music—could no longer appeal to an unattainable authenticity, they could nevertheless adhere unabashedly and tenaciously to the values and precepts that spawned authenticism in the first place, namely a comprehension of, and a stalwart respect for, the historical place of their repertoire and the empowerment which accompanies such knowledge.
- Pasternak portrays art as iskusstvo-vran'e , the art that deceives, defending it against Lef's demands for a crude authenticism .
authenticity
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Noun
(en-noun)- I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
- The authenticity of this painting is questionable.