genuine

not fake or counterfeit

• “a genuine Picasso”
• “genuine leather”

not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed

• “genuine emotion”
• “her interest in people was unfeigned”
• “true grief”

being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something

• “her actual motive”
• “a literal solitude like a desert” G.K.Chesterton
• “a genuine dilemma”