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authenticisms

authenticisms is the plural of authenticism.

Meaning of authenticism

Noun

authenticism (usually uncountable, plural authenticisms)

  1. (usually) 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.1994, Allene Cooper, “Science and the Reception of Poetry in Postbellum American Journals”, in American Periodicals, Vol. 4, p. 44 n4

Questions about authenticisms

What is authenticisms the plural of?
Authenticisms is the plural of authenticism.

Words near authenticisms in the dictionary

  1. authentications
  2. authenticative
  3. authenticator
  4. authenticators
  5. authenticism
  6. authenticisms
  7. authenticist
  8. authenticists
  9. authenticities
  10. authenticity
  11. authenticization

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