Definition of ascription Ascription

as•crip•tion

We found 5 definitions of ascription from 4 different sources.

What does ascription mean?

Noun
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"
		attribution
		categorisation, categorization, sorting, classification the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
		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; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"
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"
		attribution
		categorisation, categorization, sorting, classification the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type