Authenticity

Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions.

Authenticity or Authentic may refer to:

• Authentication, having passed the tests thereof
• Authenticity (philosophy), a particular way of dealing with the external world, being faithful to internal rather than external ideas
• Authenticity in art, either nominal or expressive
• Authentic performance refers to a movement in classical music also known as historically informed performance
• Authenticity (living history), in a living history presentation, or in a historical reenactment, a measure of how close an item of material culture, or a person's action, is to the known records concerning what was used or done in the time period being depicted.
• Authentic Records, a record label
• SS Authenticity, a coastal tanker.
• Authentic (horse) an Olympic show jumper ridden by Beezie Madden.
• Authenticity of messages in computer science and data security
• Authenticity (Foreign Exchange album), the third album by the Foreign Exchange.
• Authentic (Chris Tomlin album)
• Authentic (Joey Pearson album)
• Authenticity Party, an Egyptian political party

See also

• Counterfeit
• Provenance
• Verisimilitude
• Authentic Social Seeding, as tool for viral marketing