animatism vs ascription

animatism and ascription both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
animatism	Yes	No	No	No
ascription	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ascription is a hypernym of animatism; that is, ascription is a word with a broader meaning than animatism:

animatism: the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones
ascription: assigning to a cause or source

Other hypernyms of animatism include attribution.

animatism (noun)	ascription (noun)
the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones	assigning to a cause or source
	assigning some quality or character to a person or thing