attribution vs categorization

attribution and categorization both are nouns.

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

As nouns, categorization is a hypernym of attribution; that is, categorization is a word with a broader meaning than attribution:

attribution: assigning to a cause or source
categorization: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Other hypernyms of attribution include categorisation, classification, sorting.

As nouns, categorization is a hypernym of attribution; that is, categorization is a word with a broader meaning than attribution:

attribution: assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
categorization: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Other hypernyms of attribution include categorisation, classification, sorting.

attribution (noun)	categorization (noun)
assigning to a cause or source	the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
assigning some quality or character to a person or thing	the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
	a group of people or things arranged by class or category