Definition of Genuine

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Genuine

Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.

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Genuine Quotations

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
Woodrow Wilson

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes

Genuine Translations

genuine in Dutch is authentiek, onvervalst
genuine in German is wirklich
genuine in Hungarian is hiteles
genuine in Italian is vero
genuine in Latin is incorruptus
genuine in Spanish is genuino, castizo

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