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Specialist vs Minigenre - What's the difference?

specialist | minigenre |

As nouns the difference between specialist and minigenre

is that specialist is someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research while minigenre is a small, specialist genre.

As an adjective specialist

is (british) specialised.

specialist

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (British) Specialised.

    • Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia specialist)
  • Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
  • (medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
  • (US, military) Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.

    • Synonyms

    * (Someone who is an expert or devoted to a particular area of study) aficionado, enthusiast, connoisseur

    Antonyms

    * generalist

    Hypernyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * specialistic

    Related terms

    * specialize * subspecialty * subspecialist

    Anagrams

    * ----

    minigenre

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, specialist genre.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 22, author=Julie Bosman, title=Time to Throw Their Books Into the Ring, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=All of them could be called candidate lit, a publishing minigenre that includes runaway best sellers (“The Audacity of Hope” by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois) and unqualified duds (“Between Worlds,” a memoir by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico). }}