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Authenticity vs Individuality - What's the difference?

authenticity | individuality |

As nouns the difference between authenticity and individuality

is that authenticity is the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original while individuality is (uncountable) the characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.

authenticity

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
    • I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
  • Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.
    • The authenticity of this painting is questionable.
  • (obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).

    • Synonyms

    * (quality of being genuine) genuineness

    Antonyms

    * (quality of not being genuine) phoniness; forgery; fakeness; bogosity

    Related terms

    * authentically * authenticism

    See also

    * (wikipedia "authenticity")

    individuality

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (countable)  A person.
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    • Related terms

    * (l)

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