Authenticity vs Verity - What's the difference?
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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).
(archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
* 1602 : , act V scene 2
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
A true statement; an established doctrine.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
As a noun authenticity
is the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.As a proper noun verity is
derived from the latin for truth; one of the puritan virtue names.authenticity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
- The authenticity of this painting is questionable.
Synonyms
* (quality of being genuine) genuinenessAntonyms
* (quality of not being genuine) phoniness; forgery; fakeness; bogositySee also
* (wikipedia "authenticity")verity
English
Noun
(verities)- [...] but in the verity of extolment
- I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
- of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
- him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
- trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
- For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .
- Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.