Ascription

n.

1.

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

Noun	1.	ascription - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" Synonyms: attribution
	2.	ascription - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" Synonyms: attribution

attribution, categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting, zoomorphism