classification vs ascription

ascription vs classification

classification and ascription both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ascription is a hyponym of classification; that is, ascription is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than classification:

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

Other hyponyms of classification include coordination, appraisal, assessment, attribution, attribution, cross-classification, cross-division, subsumption.

classification (noun)	ascription (noun)
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type	assigning to a cause or source
restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people	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

Difference between classification and ascription

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