Genre vs Category - What's the difference?
genre | category |
A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
Category is a synonym of genre.
As nouns the difference between genre and category
is that genre is a kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks while category is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.genre
English
Noun
(en noun)- The still-life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
- The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre .
Synonyms
* kind * type * class * See alsoDerived terms
* subgenre * literary genre * film genre * dramatic genre * theatrical genreAnagrams
* * * ----category
English
(wikipedia category)Noun
(categories)- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories'' of various types. Thus, words like ''boy'', ''girl'', ''man'', ''woman'', etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category''' of Nouns, whereas words like ''a'', ''the'', ''this'', and ''that'' are traditionally said to belong to the ' category of Determiners.
- This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category .
- I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
- One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
- Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.
