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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
If performers of Early Music—and especially medieval music—could no longer appeal to an unattainable authenticity, they could nevertheless adhere unabashedly and tenaciously to the values and precepts that spawned authenticism in the first place, namely a comprehension of, and a stalwart respect for, the historical place of their repertoire and the empowerment which accompanies such knowledge.
Pasternak portrays art as iskusstvo-vran'e, the art that deceives, defending it against Lef's demands for a crude authenticism.
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Authenticism means A belief in the superiority of the authentic over the inauthentic..
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Sinclair Lewis claimed that American letters exemplified a divorce of intellectual life from authenticism and reality.
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