- attribution, ascription - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned"
--1 is a kind of classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting
--1 has particulars: zoomorphism - attribution, ascription - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"
--2 is a kind of classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting
--2 has particulars: animatism; imputation; externalization, externalisationDerived form: verb ascribe1