ATTRIBUTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does attribution mean?
• ATTRIBUTION (noun)
The noun ATTRIBUTION has 2 senses:
1. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
2. assigning to a cause or source
Familiarity information: ATTRIBUTION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ATTRIBUTION (noun)
Meaning:
Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
ascription; attribution
Context examples:
the attribution of language to birds / the ascription to me of honors I had not earned
Hypernyms ("attribution" is a kind of...):
categorisation; categorization; classification; sorting (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attribution"):
zoomorphism (the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god)
Meaning:
Assigning to a cause or source
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
ascription; attribution
Context examples:
the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath / he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso
Hypernyms ("attribution" is a kind of...):
categorisation; categorization; classification; sorting (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)
Attribute:
attributable (capable of being attributed)
unascribable; unattributable (not attributable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attribution"):
animatism (the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones)
imputation (the attribution to a source or cause)
externalisation; externalization (attributing to outside causes)
