genre fiction

English

Noun

genre fiction (usually uncountable, plural genre fictions)

1. (authorship) Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.
   • 2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• popular fiction

Antonyms

• literary fiction

Hyponyms

• crime fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, horror, romance, science fiction, speculative fiction, thriller, western

See also

• The English genres category