GENUINE  真實的

IMPORTANT AND NOT FAKED.
AUTHENTICREALACTUALORIGINALBONA FIDETRUEVERITABLEATTESTEDUNDISPUTEDINFORMAL THE REAL MCCOYHONEST-TO-GOODNESSHONEST-TO-GODTHE REAL THINGKOSHERAUTHENTICITY
Antonym
  • FAKECREATE SOMETHING WHICH PRETENDS TO BE WHAT IT IS NOT.
    Hypernym
    • IMPORTANTAPPROPRIATE to CAUSE ATTENTION OR RESPECT.
      • APPROPRIATEEXCELLENT in a DEFINED SITUATION OR FOR a DEFINED NEED.
        • EXCELLENTFEATURE BECAUSE of which SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IS OR SHOULD BE PREFERRED to OTHERS
          • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
    See also
    • TRUEEXIST CONFORMing to SPEAK(what is claimed). (BE AS SAID(asserted))[[NB: the subject of this syntactic predicate is the situation identified in the "sentence" of which this syntactic predicate is predicated. "God made Heaven and Earth" is TRUE iff the situation identified in this sentence (the creation of Heaven and Earth by God) EXISTS(i.e. occurred).]
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The general dominant word for something being not artificial or fake is zhēn 真 (ant. wěi 偽 "fake"), but I find is important that the word never seems to apply to negative concepts as in English "genuine hatred".

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      真實

      實

      真

      誠

      誠實

      忠實

      實際

      實在

      實打實

      篤實

      真正

      真誠

      真摯

      真性

      真格的

      真心實意

      誠心誠意

      實事求是

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      Words

      真  zhēn OC: tjin MC: tɕin 67 Attributions

      The general dominant word for something being not artificial or fake is zhēn 真(ant. wěi 偽 "fake"), but I find is important that the word never seems to apply to negative concepts as in English "genuine hatred".

        Word relations
      • Ant: 偽/FAKE Wěi 偽 (ant. zhēn 真) focusses on the artificiality rather than natural or proper provenance of the product.
      • Epithet: 性/BASIC NATURE The current and quite dominant word for the stable inherent and prototypically innate features of something is xìng 性 (ant. wéi 為 "what belongs to human action", and wěi 偽"artificial").
      • Assoc: 情/BASIC NATURE Qíng 情 (ant. wěi 偽 "artificical acquired character") refers to the basic nature of a thing as forming a pattern of reaction to other things.
      • Synon: 性/BASIC NATURE The current and quite dominant word for the stable inherent and prototypically innate features of something is xìng 性 (ant. wéi 為 "what belongs to human action", and wěi 偽"artificial").

        Syntactic words
      • nab.post-Nveritable essence of NCH
      • nab[post-N]metaphysicalveritable integrity; what is genuine in one; genuine inner nature; genuine essence; one's true being
      • nabactveritable integrity; authenticity; being veritably genuine and non-artificial
      • nsubjectthe veritable genuine object, the real object, not a fake
      • vadNveritable, true; genuine, not fake, not only apparent; veritable
      • vadVveritably, genuiney, earnestly
      • viactbe genuine and convincing; be unfaked and unartificial; be true to oneself
      • vigradedbe true to oneself; be genuine, be unfaked
      • vtoNcausativemake N veritably itself; make something true and genuine, make N true to N itself
      誠  chéng OC: djeŋ MC: dʑiɛŋ 14 Attributions

        Syntactic words
      • nab(.post-N)authenticity, genuine commitnmentCH
      • vadNgenuine
      良  liáng MC: ljang OC: ɡ-raŋCH 2 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • vadNuniquegenuine; par excellence 良心CH
      正真  zhèng zhēn OC: tjeŋs tjin MC: tɕiɛŋ tɕin 1 Attribution
        Syntactic words
      • VPadNcorrect and genuine [note the tonal caccophony of this binome! One would expect 真正.]
      真偽  zhēn wěi OC: tjin ŋgʷals MC: tɕin ŋiɛ 1 Attribution
        Syntactic words
      • NPabconceptgenuineness or otherwise
      神真  shén MC: zyin -- OC: ɢljin --CH 1 Attribution
        Syntactic words
      • VPibe spiritual and genuine, be supernaturally genuine CH
      情偽  qíng wěi OC: dzeŋ ŋgʷals MC: dziɛŋ ŋiɛ 0 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • NPabfeaturegenuineness/reality versus faked nature
      純厚  chún hòu MC: dzywin huwX OC: djun ɡooʔCH 0 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • NPabundiluted substantivenessCH
      • VPibe impeccable and impressiveCH

      Existing SW for

      Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: