assortment vs miscellany

assortment and miscellany both are nouns.

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

As nouns, assortment and miscellany are synonyms defined as:

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

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

assortment (noun)	miscellany (noun)
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type	an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things