steampunk vs genre

steampunk and genre both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
steampunk	Yes	No	No	No
genre	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, genre is a hypernym of steampunk; that is, genre is a word with a broader meaning than steampunk:

steampunk: A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society.
genre: a style of expressing yourself in writing

Other hypernyms of steampunk include literary genre, writing style, punk, punk rocker.

steampunk (noun)	genre (noun)
A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society.	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