authenticity
    n 1: undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness,
         legitimacy]

Authenticity \Au`then*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. authenticit['e].]
   1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority
      for truth and correctness.
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   2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted
      from the original.
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   Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of
         Christianity, authenticity is often restricted in its
         use to the first of the above meanings, and
         distinguished from qenuineness.
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