Gender

The term genus (from the Latin genus, -eris, 'class') can refer, in this encyclopedia:

Arts

• a artistic genre, thematic specialization in which the various arts are usually divided;
• a film genre, general theme of a film that serves for its classification;
• a musical genre, a category that collects musical compositions that share different criteria of affinity;
• a genre of video gamesa set of these that possess a series of common elements;
• a Theatrical genrealso called "theatrical style".

Language and Literature

• a literary gendera system that allows the classification of literary works according to various criteria;
• a historietistic genre, a model of formal and thematic structuring that is offered as a pre-creation scheme, in addition to serving for its classification, distribution and sale;
• a grammatical gender, a nominal classification system that has some languages.

Biology

• Al gender (biology)a taxonomic category immediately superior to that of the species and inferior to that of the family;

Exact sciences

• in topology, gender (mathematics), a property of invariance of the objects considered and which, in very general terms, can be interpreted as the number of holes of a surface.

Philosophy and social sciences

• a logical gender, concept that brings together the multiplicity of individuals into a conceptual unity; in turn, these concepts can be grouped into conceptual units of higher level; traditionally, the first level is usually called species and higher levels, genders, being the supreme logical genre that brings together the whole;
• Al gender (social sciences), a set of characteristics used in society to distinguish between masculinity and femininity, characteristics such as biological sex, social structures based on sex (gender) and the subject's own gender identity.

Miscellaneous

• to one merchandise;
• a tissue (textile).