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collection vs assortment

assortment vs collection

collection and assortment both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
collection Yes No No No
assortment Yes No No No
As nouns, assortment is a hyponym of collection; that is, assortment is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than collection:
  • collection: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  • assortment: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Other hyponyms of collection include procession, pharmacopoeia, string, wardrobe, wardrobe, population, universe, armamentarium, art collection, backlog, battery, block, book, rule book, book, bottle collection, bunch, caboodle, lot, coin collection, collage, content, contents, ensemble, tout ensemble, corpus, crop, tenantry, findings, flagging, flinders, pack, deal, hand, long suit, herbarium, stamp collection, statuary, sum, sum total, summation, agglomeration, gimmickry, nuclear club, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile, mass, combination, congregation, hit parade, Judaica, kludge, library, program library, subroutine library, library, mythology, biology, biota, fauna, zoology, petting zoo, set, Victoriana, category, class, family, job lot, bundle, package, packet, parcel, defence, defense, defense lawyers, defense team, prosecution, planting, signage, GAAP, generally accepted accounting principles, pantheon, Free World, Third World, Europe, Asia, North America, Central America, South America, Oort cloud, galaxy, extragalactic nebula, galaxy, fleet, fleet, fleet, repertoire, repertory, repertoire, repertory, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety, batch, clutch, batch, rogue's gallery, exhibition, expo, exposition, convoy, traffic, air power, aviation, botany, flora, vegetation, jurisprudence, law, menagerie, data, information, ana, mail, post, treasure, treasure trove, trinketry, troponomy, troponymy, smithereens, tripton, napoleoniana, problematics, audio library.
collection (noun) assortment (noun)
the act of gathering something together the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
a publication containing a variety of works a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
request for a sum of money
several things grouped together or considered as a whole
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