grouping vs association

association vs grouping

grouping and association both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grouping	Yes	No	No	No
association	Yes	No	No	No

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

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
association: (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

Other hyponyms of grouping include human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world, arrangement, straggle, kingdom, biological group, biotic community, community, people, social group, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, race, cloud, swarm, subgroup, sainthood, citizenry, people, population, hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed, varna, circuit, scheme, system, series, actinide, actinoid, actinon, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth, halogen, stellar association, mineral association.

grouping (noun)	association (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	the act of consorting with or joining with others
the activity of putting things together in groups	the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
a system for classifying things into groups	a formal organization of people or groups of people
	(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
	(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
	a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
	a social or business relationship
	the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

Difference between grouping and association

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