taxonomy vs classification

classification vs taxonomy

taxonomy and classification both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
taxonomy	Yes	No	No	No
classification	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, classification is a hypernym of taxonomy; that is, classification is a word with a broader meaning than taxonomy:

taxonomy: practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
classification: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

Other hypernyms of taxonomy include assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization.

taxonomy (noun)	classification (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	restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people
a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc	the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
	a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Difference between taxonomy and classification

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