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authenticism

noun

Etymology

From authentic + -ism.

  1. derived from αὐθέντης — “perpetrator, murderer, absolute ruler”
  2. derived from αὐθεντικός — “authentic, genuine”
  3. derived from authenticus
  4. derived from autentique
  5. inherited from authentik
  6. suffixed as authenticism — “authentic + ism”

Definitions

  1. A belief in the superiority of the authentic over the inauthentic.

    • Sinclair Lewis claimed that American letters exemplified a divorce of intellectual life from authenticism and reality.
    • Pasternak portrays art as iskusstvo-vran'e, the art that deceives, defending it against Lef's demands for a crude authenticism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA