variety vs genre

genre vs variety

variety and genre both are nouns.

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

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

variety: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
genre: a kind of literary or artistic work

Other hyponyms of variety include description, type, antitype, art form, style, flavor, flavour, color, colour, species, genus, brand, make, ilk, like, manner, model, stripe, like, the like, the likes of.

variety (noun)	genre (noun)
noticeable heterogeneity	a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
a difference that is usually pleasant	a kind of literary or artistic work
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality	a style of expressing yourself in writing
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

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