categorisation

1. 1.

   a group of people or things arranged by class or category

   Synonymsclassificationcategorization

   Broaderarrangement

   Narrowerdichotomytrichotomy
2. 2.

   the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

   Synonymsclassificationcategorizationsorting

   Broaderbasic cognitive process

   Narrowercoordinationappraisalattributioncross-classificationsubsumption
3. 3.

   the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

   Synonymscategorizationclassificationcompartmentalizationcompartmentalisationassortment

   Broadergrouping

   Narrowerindexingreclassificationrelegationstratificationtaxonomytypology

Other forms of categorisation

plural

categorisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about categorisation

What does categorisation mean?

categorisation means "a group of people or things arranged by class or category". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in categorisation?

categorisation has 7 syllables: ca-te-go-ri-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for categorisation?

Close synonyms include classification, categorization, classification, categorization, sorting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is categorisation a common word?

categorisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.