Added 9 October 2026 sorting noun Categories: ActionsMind & IdeasUncommon Words noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about sorting at Wordnik → Where our words come from → An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion. the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories. Grouping by class or kind or size. Related Words: categorizationclassificationsortersortationorderorderingarrangingarrangetriageclassifyingclassifycounting Back to today's word