Noun attribution has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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, externalisation
    Derived form: verb attribute2
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