· 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"
Synonym(s): mixture, mixed_bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley
Hypernym(s): collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
· the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Synonym(s): categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation
Hypernym(s): grouping