grouping vs collection

collection vs grouping

grouping and collection both are nouns.

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

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

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
collection: several things grouped together or considered as a whole

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, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, race, association, 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.

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

grouping: the activity of putting things together in groups
collection: the act of gathering something together

Other hyponyms of grouping include pairing, punctuation, phrasing, assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, aggregation, assembling, collecting, sorting.

grouping (noun)	collection (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	the act of gathering something together
the activity of putting things together in groups	a publication containing a variety of works
a system for classifying things into groups	request for a sum of money
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Difference between grouping and collection

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