expressive style vs genre

genre vs expressive style

expressive style and genre both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
genre	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, genre is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, genre is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
genre: a style of expressing yourself in writing

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	genre (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
	a kind of literary or artistic work
	a style of expressing yourself in writing

Difference between expressive style and genre

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