Diffrent Between Generic-Family And Font-Family

Question

Hello
what is diffrent between font-family and generic family?

Answer 1

Font family(s) are specific fonts
Generic fonts are any fonts that look alike ex.serif and monospace. if the browser doesn't support the font family(s) then it will choose a generic font of its liking

Answer 2

so are when we use generic family... are the types of fonts mentioned inbuilt in the generic type of we need to mention while coding