grouping vs social group

social group vs grouping

grouping and social group both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grouping	Yes	No	No	No
social group	Yes	No	No	No

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

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
social group: people sharing some social relation

Other hyponyms of grouping include human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world, arrangement, straggle, kingdom, biological group, biotic community, community, people, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, 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.

grouping (noun)	social group (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	people sharing some social relation
the activity of putting things together in groups
a system for classifying things into groups

Difference between grouping and social group

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