genuine

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not fake or counterfeit

   a genuine Picasso

2. 2
   adj

   Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated

   a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship

3. 3
   adj

   not pretended

4. 4
   adj

   being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something

5. 5
   adj

   Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native

Etymology

From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.