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Genie in a Bottle
"Genie in a Bottle" is Christina Aguilera's 1999 RCA debut single, written by David Frank, Steve Kipner, and Pamela Sheyne; it spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the UK chart.
Genie Music Awards
Genie Music Awards (지니 뮤직 어워드, GMA): annual South Korean music awards by KT Genie Music with MBC Plus and ENA, held 2018-2022 each November at Incheon's Namdong Gymnasium; 2022 Daesangs weighted 60% digital sales, 40% judges; last edition won by Lim Young-woong and NCT Dream.
Genie, Make a Wish (다 이루어질지니)
Genie, Make a Wish (다 이루어질지니) is a 2025 13-episode Netflix Korean fantasy rom-com by writer Kim Eun-sook, starring Kim Woo-bin as the Satanic genie Iblis and Suzy as emotionless Ka-young, released October 3, 2025.
Geniemode
Geniemode is a Gurugram-based B2B cross-border sourcing startup founded in 2021 by Amit Sharma and Tanuj Gangwani, helping global retailers procure apparel, home, and lifestyle products from India and South Asia.
Geniocracy
Geniocracy, from Raël's 1977 book La Géniocratie, is a proposed selective democracy restricting voting to people 10% above average intelligence and office-holding to those 50% above, tested every seven years.
Genioplasty
Genioplasty is a surgical procedure that reshapes or repositions the chin by cutting the mandible and moving the freed bone segment, fixing it with plates or screws.
Genipa
Genipa is a Neotropical tree genus in Rubiaceae with three accepted species, chiefly Genipa americana (jagua, genipap), whose genipin-rich unripe fruit yields a natural blue dye used for body paint, jagua tattoos, and FDA-approved food coloring.
Genista
Genista (woadwaxen) is a Fabaceae genus of yellow-flowered brooms, tribe Genisteae, native from Macaronesia and Europe to the Caucasus, with about 145 accepted species, toxic quinolizidine alkaloids, and the historic dye plant G. tinctoria.
Genisteae
Genisteae (染料木族) is a legume tribe (Faboideae) of brooms, gorses, and lupins, about 25-26 genera and 550-570 species, defined by quinolizidine alkaloids and four major clades including Lupinus and the Cytisus-Genista complex.
Genistein
Genistein (4',5,7-trihydroxyisoflavone) is a soy-derived isoflavone phytoestrogen that inhibits protein-tyrosine kinase and topoisomerase-II; first isolated from dyer's broom in 1899, studied for cardiometabolic, menopausal, bone, and anticancer effects.
Genital herpes
Genital herpes, caused by HSV-1 or HSV-2, is a lifelong STI with recurrent genital sores; about 520 million people have genital HSV-2. Treated with acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir; no vaccine exists.
Genital modification and mutilation
Genital modification and mutilation covers non-medical and identity-related alteration of the genitalia: FGM/C (WHO-defined, four types, over 230 million affected), male circumcision and VMMC, intersex and gender-affirming surgery, and cosmetic genital surgery, whose legal and cultural treatment differs sharply.
Genital nullification
Genital nullification (nullo, eunuch procedure) is removal of external genitalia for a smooth, non-binary contour without neovagina or neophallus; sought for gender dysphoria, body integrity dysphoria, or non-sexual identity.
Genital piercing
Genital piercing: jewelry placed through male or female genital tissue, including Prince Albert, ampallang, and VCH types. Covers healing times of 4 weeks to a year, infection, urethral and nerve complications, condom breakage and STI risk, adult-only laws, and the WHO FGM Type IV classification issue.
Genital stage
Genital stage: fifth and final stage of Freud's psychosexual development, from puberty on, when libido shifts to genital primacy and mature sexual interests; largely unsupported empirically.
Genital tattooing
Genital tattooing, also called intimate tattooing, is permanent ink tattooing of the penis, scrotum, vulva, or surrounding skin. Evidence reaches to Paleolithic phallic art; known complications include a reported case of nonischemic priapism.
Genital ulcer
Genital ulcer: an open sore on genital, anal, or perianal skin, usually caused by genital herpes or syphilis, less often chancroid, LGV, or donovanosis; diagnosis requires laboratory testing.
Genital wart
Genital warts (condyloma acuminata, anogenital warts) are benign HPV-caused growths of genital skin and mucosa, 90% from HPV types 6 or 11, treated by topical or ablative therapies and prevented by vaccination.
Genitive case
Genitive case: a grammatical case marking the possessor or associated noun (Latin genitivus, Greek γενικὴ πτῶσις). Covers possession, partitive, subjective/objective uses; English marks it with 's or of; PIE had it among eight cases.
Genitopatellar syndrome
Genitopatellar syndrome (GPS, OMIM 606170), a rare autosomal dominant congenital disorder caused by de novo truncating KAT6B variants, marked by absent patellae, genital and renal anomalies, contractures, and agenesis of the corpus callosum.
Genitoplasty
Genitoplasty is a family of reconstructive operations on the external genitalia, performed mainly in pediatric urology for congenital adrenal hyperplasia and other differences of sex development.
Genitourinary system
Genitourinary (urogenital) system: the combined urinary organs (kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra) and reproductive organs (gonads, genital ducts), sharing intermediate mesoderm origin; pronephros-mesonephros-metanephros development and CAKUT anomalies.
Genius
Genius: a person of extraordinary creative or intellectual achievement, from Latin genius (guiding spirit). Defined philosophically by Kant (Critique of Judgment, 1790) as nature giving the rule to art; studied scientifically since Galton's Hereditary Genius (1869).
Genius (2016 film)
Genius is a 2016 biographical drama directed by Michael Grandage, starring Colin Firth as Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins and Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe, with Nicole Kidman in support.
Genius (2018 Hindi film)
Genius (जीनियस) is a 2018 Hindi-language action thriller directed by Anil Sharma, in which an IIT topper joins RAW to avenge his team, marking the lead debut of Utkarsh Sharma.
Genius (American TV series)
Genius is National Geographic's American anthology drama series (premiered April 25, 2017; creator Noah Pink) dramatizing innovators: Einstein (Geoffrey Rush), Picasso (Antonio Banderas), Aretha Franklin (Cynthia Erivo), and MLK/X, distinct from the 2016 film Genius.
Genius (lyrics platform)
Genius is a lyrics-annotation website where users transcribe song lyrics and add explanations, with verified artists annotating their own work; founded in 2009 as Rap Genius, it was acquired by MediaLab in 2021.
Genius (mythology)
Genius (plural genii), from Latin gignere, was the Roman generative guardian spirit of each man, paralleled in women by the iuno; worshipped on birthdays and at the lararium, extended to places (genius loci) and to the emperor's genius in the imperial cult.
Genius loci
Genius loci, Latin for "spirit of place", is the Roman guardian spirit of a location (genius locorum, genius loci), later re-proposed by Alexander Pope and by Norberg-Schulz's 1980 architectural phenomenology as a place's distinctive atmosphere.
Genius of Love
Genius of Love is a 1981 Tom Tom Club song by Talking Heads' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, recorded at Compass Point, Bahamas; a modest Hot 100 hit (No. 31) that became one of hip-hop's most sampled tracks, notably in Mariah Carey's 1995 "Fantasy".