microgenre en · NOUN
Etymology
From micro- + genre.
Meanings
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A hyper-specific or niche genre.
This looked incredibly cool, and borrowed visually from video games and from the YouTube microgenre of shopping-cart crashes.
2007 August 29, Virginia Heffernan, “For MySpace Viewers, a Terra Incognita With No Cellphones or Internet”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| microgenres | Number=Plur | lexicographic |