ascription (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 2 senses of the word *ascription*:
NOUN	cognition	ascription, attribution	assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
NOUN	cognition	ascription, attribution	assigning to a cause or source

English > *ascription*: 2 senses > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing.
Example	"the ascription to me of honors I had not earned"
Synonym	attribution
Narrower	zoomorphism	The attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god
Broader	classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting	The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories / categories
Spanish	atribución

English > *ascription*: 2 senses > noun 2, cognition
Meaning	Assigning to a cause or source.
Synonym	attribution
Attributes	attributable	capable of being attributed
Attributes	unattributable, unascribable	not attributable
Narrower	animatism	The attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones / stones
	externalization, externalisation	Attributing to outside causes
	imputation	The attribution to a source or cause
Broader	classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting	The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories / categories
Spanish	adscripción, atribución
Catalan	adscripció, atribució
Verbs	ascribe	attribute or credit to

HyperDic: ascription