Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ascription

2 senses of ascription

Sense 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")
       => classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting -- (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)

Sense 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")
       => classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting -- (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)