noun
1. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
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the attribution of language to birds
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the ascription to me of honors I had not earned
• Syn: ↑ascription
• Hypernyms: ↑classification, ↑categorization, ↑categorisation, ↑sorting
• Hyponyms: ↑zoomorphism
2. assigning to a cause or source
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the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath
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he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso
• Syn: ↑ascription
• Derivationally related forms: ↑ascribe (for: ↑ascription), ↑attribute
• Hypernyms: ↑classification, ↑categorization, ↑categorisation, ↑sorting
• Hyponyms: ↑animatism, ↑imputation, ↑externalization, ↑externalisation
• Attrubites: ↑attributable, ↑unattributable, ↑unascribable
Useful english dictionary. 2012.