noun
1. the state of being genuine
• Ant: ↑spuriousness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑genuine
• Hypernyms: ↑actuality
2. undisputed credibility
• Syn: ↑authenticity, ↑legitimacy
• Derivationally related forms: ↑genuine, ↑authentic (for: ↑authenticity)
• Hypernyms: ↑credibility, ↑credibleness, ↑believability
• Hyponyms: ↑real McCoy, ↑real thing, ↑real stuff
Useful english dictionary. 2012.