- assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions"
--1 is a kind of collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
--1 has particulars: - categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
--2 is a kind of grouping
--2 has particulars:indexing; reclassification; relegation; stratification; taxonomy; typology Derived form: verb assort2