gallimaufry vs assortment

gallimaufry and assortment both are nouns.

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

As nouns, assortment is a hypernym of gallimaufry; that is, assortment is a word with a broader meaning than gallimaufry:

Other hypernyms of gallimaufry include miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety.

gallimaufry (noun)	assortment (noun)
a motley assortment of things	the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things