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inauthentic

adj
/ˌɪnɔːˈθɛn.tɪk/UK/ˌɪnɔˈθɛn.tɪk/US

Etymology

From in- + authentic.

  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. prefixed as inauthentic — “in + authentic”

Definitions

  1. Not authentic or genuine

    Not authentic or genuine; spurious.

    • But only in recent years, experts say, have they begun routinely disenrolling Indians deemed inauthentic members of a group.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inauthentic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at inauthentic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at inauthentic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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