Genuine vs Origin - What's the difference?
genuine | origin |
Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure.
The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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, title= (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
As an adjective genuine
is belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure.As a noun origin is
the beginning of something.genuine
English
(wikipedia genuine)Adjective
(en adjective)- a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials
Synonyms
* authentic * real * natural * lubish * true * See alsoAntonyms
* fake * ingenuineExternal links
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Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}