genre fiction en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.
Genre fiction encourages a focus on one aspect at the expense of others. This can produce an obsessive, powerful work. But a literary novel has, somewhere, to open out into the universal.
2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| genre fictions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
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horror · romance · western · fantasy · thriller · crime fiction · speculative fiction · historical fiction · science fiction
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Translations (13)
ru жа́нровая литерату́ра (popular fiction) · cmn 類型小説 /类型小说 (popular fiction) · sv genrelitteratur (popular fiction) · nl populaire fictie (popular fiction) · pl literatura popularna (popular fiction) · cs žánrová literatura (popular fiction) · nl genreliteratuur (popular fiction) · it narrativa di genere (popular fiction) · nl genrefictie (popular fiction) · es literatura de género (popular fiction) · hu zsánerirodalom (popular fiction) · fr littérature de genre (popular fiction) · es ficción de género (popular fiction)