assessment vs classification

classification vs assessment

assessment and classification both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assessment	Yes	No	No	No
classification	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, classification is a hypernym of assessment; that is, classification is a word with a broader meaning than assessment:

assessment: the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
classification: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Other hypernyms of assessment include categorisation, categorization, sorting.

assessment (noun)	classification (noun)
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event	the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
the market value set on assets	restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people
the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth	the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
an amount determined as payable	a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Difference between assessment and classification

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