inauthentic adj : intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: unauthentic, spurious]

English

Adjective

inauthentic

1. not authentic or genuine ; spurious

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
• Authentic performance refers to a movement in classical movement also known as historically informed performance
• Authenticity (reenactment), in historical reenactment, a measure of how close an item, prop, action, weapon, or custom is, to what would actually have been used or done in the time period being depicted
• Authentic (album), an album by Chris Tomlin
• Authentic (Joey Pearson album)
• Authentic Records, a record label
• Authentic (software), payments platform software from Alaric International

See also

• Provenance
• Verisimilitude
• Counterfeit

absonant, contradictory, contrary to reason, fallacious, faulty, flawed, garbled, illogical, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, invalid, irrational, loose, miscited, misquoted, misreported, misstated, nonscientific, not following, paralogical, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, spurious, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unconnected, unfounded, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreliable, unscientific, without reason