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Meaning of genuine

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  genuine
      adj 1: not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine
             leather" [syn: {genuine}, {echt}] [ant: {counterfeit},
             {imitative}]
      2: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine
         emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true
         grief" [syn: {genuine}, {true(a)}, {unfeigned}]
      3: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of
         something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a
         desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: {actual},
         {genuine}, {literal}, {real}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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