assortment vs miscellanea

assortment and miscellanea both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assortment	Yes	No	No	No
miscellanea	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assortment and miscellanea are synonyms defined as:

assortment and miscellanea: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

Other synonyms of assortment include miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety.

assortment (noun)	miscellanea (noun)
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things