- Actually possessing the alleged or apparent attribute or character: genuine leather.
- Not spurious or counterfeit; authentic. See synonyms at authentic.
- Honestly felt or experienced: genuine devotion.
- Actual; real: a genuine dilemma.
- Free from hypocrisy or dishonesty; sincere.
- Being of pure or original stock: a genuine Hawaiian.
[Latin genuīnus, natural, possibly from alteration of ingenuus, native, freeborn. See ingenuous.]
genuinely gen'u·ine·ly adv.genuineness gen'u·ine·ness n.





