style vs genre

style and genre both are nouns.

style is a verb but genre is not a verb.

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

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

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 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.

style (noun)	genre (noun)
a slender bristlelike or tubular process	a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving	a kind of literary or artistic work
how something is done or how it happens	a style of expressing yourself in writing
distinctive and stylish elegance
the popular taste at a given time
a particular kind (as to appearance)
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
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

style (verb)	genre (verb)
designate by an identifying term
make consistent with certain rules of style
make consistent with a certain fashion or style

Difference between style and genre

Words related to "style"

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