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microgenre

microgenre noun: a hyper-specific or niche genre.

Noun

microgenre (plural microgenres)

  1. 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 of microgenre

pluralmicrogenres

Origin of microgenre

From micro- + genre.

Questions about microgenre

What does microgenre mean?
Microgenre means a hyper-specific or niche genre.
What part of speech is microgenre?
Microgenre is a noun.
What is the plural of microgenre?
The plural of microgenre is microgenres.

Words near microgenre in the dictionary

  1. microgenitalism
  2. microgenome
  3. microgenomes
  4. microgenomic
  5. microgenomics
  6. microgenre
  7. microgenres
  8. microgeny
  9. microgeographic
  10. microgeographical
  11. microgeographically

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