assortment meaning and definition

ASSORTMENT noun

Definition of assortment (noun)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety
2. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
   • synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization