genre vs variety
variety vs genregenre and variety both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| genre | Yes | No | No | No |
| variety | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
variety is a hypernym of
genre; that is, variety is a
word with a broader meaning than genre:
- genre: a kind of literary or artistic work
- variety: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
| genre (noun) | variety (noun) |
|---|---|
| a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique | noticeable heterogeneity |
| a kind of literary or artistic work | a difference that is usually pleasant |
| a style of expressing yourself in writing | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality |
| a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances | |
| (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics | |
| a collection containing a variety of sorts of things |
Words related to "genre"
- Horatianism
- abstract art
- abstractionism
- art
- chinoiserie
- drama
- expressive style
- fine art
- folk art
- form
- genre painting
- kind
- landscape
- landscape painting
- literary genre
- magic realism
- military art
- modernism
- music genre
- musical genre
- musical style
- naive art
- outsider art
- poesy
- poetry
- pointillism
- postmodernism
- primitive art
- primitivism
- prose
- satire
- self-taught art
- sort
- steampunk
- style
- synthetism
- variety
- vernacular art
- verse
- writing style
Words related to "variety"
- accumulation
- aggregation
- alphabet soup
- antitype
- art form
- assemblage
- assortment
- biodiversity
- biological science
- biology
- brand
- breed
- category
- change
- collection
- color
- colour
- cultivar
- description
- difference
- diverseness
- diversity
- farrago
- flavor
- flavour
- form
- gallimaufry
- genre
- genus
- grab bag
- heterogeneity
- heterogeneousness
- hodgepodge
- hotchpotch
- ilk
- kind
- like
- make
- manner
- melange
- mingle-mangle
- minstrel show
- miscellanea
- miscellany
- mishmash
- mixed bag
- mixture
- model
- motley
- multidimensionality
- multifariousness
- music hall
- oddments
- odds and ends
- omnium-gatherum
- potpourri
- ragbag
- range
- review
- revue
- salmagundi
- sampler
- selection
- show
- smorgasbord
- sort
- species
- stock
- strain
- stripe
- style
- taxon
- taxonomic category
- taxonomic group
- the like
- the likes of
- type
- unvaried
- unvarying
- varied
- variety show
- vaudeville
- witch's brew
- witches' brew
- witches' broth
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