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Laborious Posted 6 years ago
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"authentic" or "genuine", which is correct, please

-You will get everything genuine / authentic here.

  

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Laborious -You will get everything genuine / authentic here. There's not enough context to decide. Most likely either one would be OK because the meaning is extremely similar — though 'authentic' is more objective, and 'genuine' is more subjective.

  • Laborious -You will get everything genuine / authentic here.
  • There's not enough context to decide.
  • Most likely either one would be OK because the meaning is extremely similar — though 'authentic' is more objective, and 'genuine' is more subjective.
  • authentic: conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; not counterfeit or copied genuine: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; not fake or counterfeit CJ
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Laborious

-You will get everything genuine / authentic here.

There's not enough context to decide. Most likely either one would be OK because the meaning is extremely similar — though 'authentic' is more objective, and 'genuine' is more subjective.

authentic: conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; not counterfeit or copied

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Consider also rephrasing it as:

Everything you get here is/will be genuine/authentic.

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