Au'then-tĭç'i-ty, n.
n. [Fr. authenticité.]
Sense 1. The quality of being authentic; of established authority for truth and correctness.
Sense 2. Genuineness; the quality of being of genuine original.
☞ In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity, this term is restricted in its use to the first of the above meanings, and distinguished from genuineness. See AUTHENTIC.