generic noun vs noun

generic noun and noun both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
generic noun	Yes	No	No	No
noun	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, noun is a hypernym of generic noun; that is, noun is a word with a broader meaning than generic noun:

generic noun: a noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender
noun: a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

generic noun (noun)	noun (noun)
a noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender	a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
	the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition