Sorting
Part of speech: noun
Definition: ordering categorizing
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
Example sentence: But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
Categorization
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a group of things arranged by category; a classificationthe process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes