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Authentic means genuine.
Authenticate means to show or prove that something is genuine.
Authentication is the act of showing or proving that something is genuine.
Authentification is not a word.
The Connection Log says:
IMAP server: Authentification failed. Invalid login. Check username and password.
My word-a-day subscription recently included the following quote:
Homicide and verbicide -- that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal
results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -- are alike forbidden.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician
(1809-1894)
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