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Authentic vs Original – What’s the difference?

Authentic vs Original - What's the difference?
As adjectives the difference between authentic and original is that authentic is of the same origin as claimed; genuine while original is (label) relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others. As a noun original is an object or other creation (eg narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

authentic

English

Alternative forms

* authentical, authentick, authenticke, authentique (all archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective )

  • Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
  • The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
  • Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
  • The report was completely authentic .
    an authentic”’ writer; an ”’authentic”’ portrait; ”’authentic information
  • (music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
  • (obsolete) authoritative
  • (Milton)

    Synonyms

    * (of the claimed origin) genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked
    * (conforming to fact) reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfaked

    Antonyms

    * (not of the claimed origin) phony, fake; ingenuine

    Derived terms

    * authentically
    * authenticate
    * authentication
    * authenticity
    * authenticism
    * authenticist

    original

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective )

  • (label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5
    , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

  • (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess)
    , chapter=1 citation
    , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}

  • (label) Newly created.
  • (label) Fresh, different.
  • (label) Pioneering.
  • (label) Having as its origin.
  • Synonyms

    * (first in series ) initial
    * autograph
    * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy
    * derivative
    * reproduction
    * simile

    Derived terms

    * originally
    * original sin

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
  • This manuscript is the original
  • A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
  • You’re an original
  • (archaic) An eccentric
  • Synonyms

    * autograph
    * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy
    * remake
    * reproduction

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