animatism vs attribution

animatism and attribution both are nouns.

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

As nouns, attribution is a hypernym of animatism; that is, attribution 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
attribution: assigning to a cause or source

Other hypernyms of animatism include ascription.

animatism (noun)	attribution (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