Adscriptions

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Acts of assigning someone or something to a particular group or category based on characteristics or status
2. The process of designating affiliation or membership to a certain class, group, or category
3. Instances where people or things are designated as belonging to a specific category or group by attribution

Etymology: "Adscriptions" is the plural of "adscription", a word formed from the Latin "adscriptio", meaning a writing-in or enrolment, which itself comes from "adscribere", to write (something) into or add in writing. The Latin verb is built from "ad-", meaning "to" or "toward", and "scribere", "to write", so the underlying picture is of a name being written onto a list. English took the noun with the sense of attributing someone or something to a particular class or group, and the plural names the individual acts of such designation.

Synonyms: attributions, assignments, allocations, designations, labelings