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Categories vs Categorization - What's the difference?

categories | categorization |

As nouns the difference between categories and categorization

is that categories is while categorization is a group of things arranged by category; a classification.

categories

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    categorization

    English

    (wikipedia categorization)

    Alternative forms

    * (mainly British) categorisation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
  • The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
  • *2013 , (James Gleick), "Wikipedia's Women Problem", New York Review of Books , 29 Apr 2013:
  • *:It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

    • Related terms

    * category * categorize