Genre vs Topic - What's the difference?
genre | topic |
A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
(l)
Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
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(obsolete) An argument or reason.
* Bishop Wilkins
(obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
As nouns the difference between genre and topic
is that genre is a kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks while topic is subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.As an adjective topic is
topical.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
* * * ----topic
English
(wikipedia topic)Alternative forms
* topick (obsolete)Adjective
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
- contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
- (Wiseman)