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The Platonic case strikes many as too easy to be characterized as a genuine moral dilemma.

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  1. adjective Actually possessing the alleged or apparent attribute or character: genuine leather.
  2. adjective Not spurious or counterfeit; authentic. See Synonyms at authentic.
  3. adjective Honestly felt or experienced: genuine devotion.
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  • On the whole I think that the Diary is genuine, and accordingly I have quoted it more than once. —  Life Of Johnson
  • The Platonic case strikes many as too easy to be characterized as a genuine moral dilemma. —  Moral Dilemmas
  • I wonder how far it is genuine, and in what degree it is better than the superficial good feeling with which Yankees receive foreigners, — a feeling not calculated for endurance, but a good deal like a brushwood fire. —  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 1Tender parts of the art editor's midsection (11) 9Photo of wild couples (5-2) 10Young actress in genuine trouble (7) 11Countryman takes A-Train in story (9) 12I dispense with model (5) 13Walks in street, then takes a cab (7) 16I'd left a sign of spring in journals (7) 17Returning, a Republican once more falls for a newlywed? —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
  • Lot of medals -- genuine, probably. —  At Bertram's Hotel
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin genuīnus, natural, possibly from alteration of ingenuus, native, freeborn; see ingenuous.

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  1. = French génuine = Spanish Portuguese Italian genuino, from Latin genuinus, innate, native, natural, from gignere, Old Latin genere, beget, produce: see genus.
 

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