Meta vs Authenticity - What's the difference?
meta | authenticity |
(informal) Self-referential; at a higher level
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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).
As an adjective meta
is meta.As a noun authenticity is
the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.meta
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation
citation
Anagrams
* ----authenticity
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Noun
(en-noun)- I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
- The authenticity of this painting is questionable.