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inauthentic
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in·au·then·tic  (nô-thntk)
adj.
Not genuine or authentic.

inau·then·tici·ty (-ts-t) n.
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Adj.1.inauthentic - intended to deceiveinauthentic - intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"
counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"


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49)-and, by dissolving one's identity within the amorphous inauthenticity of 'the crowd', deceive oneself that nothing is wrong.
She accuses them of flip-flopping, of insincerity and inauthenticity, but she misses the point: Furst and Berglund do what they want, when they want (even if it contradicts what they did before) and do not particularly care what anyone thinks.
The narrator escapes from the drabness of Isabella into private fantasies of self-importance, compensating for the meaninglessness and inauthenticity of his life.
 
 
 
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