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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person who espouses authenticism

   "Polls invariably indicate that most of America's 53 million Catholics are not authenticists."

Adjective

1. 1
   Of, pertaining to, or espousing authenticism, a belief in the superiority of the authentic over the inauthentic.

Example

More examples

"Polls invariably indicate that most of America's 53 million Catholics are not authenticists."

Etymology

From authentic + -ist.

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