Subgenre

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One of several categories within a particular genre.

    "You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre."

Example

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"He thinks he listens to phonk music, but in reality he only listens to a subgenre of phonk, called drift phonk."

Etymology

From sub- + genre.

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