Meanings
plural genre fictions
- uncountableusuallyauthorshipFictional 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 GuardianSynonyms: popular fiction
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 類型小説 /类型小说
- 類型小説 /类型小说 (lèixíng xiǎoshuō)popular fiction
Czech žánrová literatura
- žánrová literaturapopular fiction
Dutch genrefictie, populaire fictie
- genrefictiepopular fiction
- populaire fictiepopular fiction
- genreliteratuurpopular fiction
French littérature de genre
- littérature de genrepopular fiction
Hungarian zsánerirodalom
- zsánerirodalompopular fiction
Italian narrativa di genere
- narrativa di generepopular fiction
Polish literatura popularna
- literatura popularnapopular fiction
Russian жа́нровая литерату́ра
- жа́нровая литерату́ра (žánrovaja literatúra)popular fiction
Spanish literatura de género, ficción de género
- literatura de géneropopular fiction
- ficción de géneropopular fiction
Swedish genrelitteratur
- genrelitteraturpopular fiction
Cite this entry
genre fiction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genre%20fiction
“genre fiction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genre%20fiction. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “genre fiction,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genre%20fiction.
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