taxonomy vs categorisation
categorisation vs taxonomytaxonomy and categorisation both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| taxonomy | Yes | No | No | No |
| categorisation | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
categorisation is a hypernym of
taxonomy; that is, categorisation is a
word with a broader meaning than taxonomy:
- taxonomy: practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
- categorisation: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Other hypernyms of taxonomy include
assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization.
| taxonomy (noun) | categorisation (noun) |
|---|---|
| practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type |
| (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification | the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories |
| a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc | a group of people or things arranged by class or category |
Words related to "taxonomy"
Words related to "categorisation"
- Australian spelling
- British spelling
- appraisal
- arrangement
- ascription
- assessment
- assortment
- attribution
- basic cognitive process
- categorization
- classification
- compartmentalisation
- compartmentalization
- coordination
- cross-classification
- cross-division
- dichotomy
- duality
- grouping
- hierarchisation
- hierarchization
- indexing
- reclassification
- relegation
- sorting
- stratification
- subsumption
- taxonomy
- trichotomy
- typology
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