subsumption vs sorting

subsumption and sorting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
subsumption	Yes	No	No	No
sorting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sorting is a hypernym of subsumption; that is, sorting is a word with a broader meaning than subsumption:

subsumption: incorporating something under a more general category
sorting: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Other hypernyms of subsumption include categorisation, categorization, classification.

subsumption (noun)	sorting (noun)
incorporating something under a more general category	grouping by class or kind or size
the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)	the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
	an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion