classification vs taxonomy

taxonomy vs classification

classification and taxonomy both are nouns.

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

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

classification: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
taxonomy: practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

Other hyponyms of classification include indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, typology, hierarchisation, hierarchization.

classification (noun)	taxonomy (noun)
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type	practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people	(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories	a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Difference between classification and taxonomy

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