Meanings
adjectivefauxthentic (not comparable)
- not comparableslangNonauthentic, but made to appear so; falsely authentic.
Yet it begs the question as to whether the authenticity of Southern food should be so closely guarded that Ruby's, a restaurant that clearly follows the spirit and many of the ingredients of Southern food, would be labeled “fake” or “fauxthentic.”
2016, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South
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APA
fauxthentic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauxthentic
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“fauxthentic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauxthentic. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fauxthentic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauxthentic.
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