Word.ws English Dictionary

nonquant

nonquant noun: one who is not a quant (a quantitative analyst).

Noun

nonquant (plural nonquants)

  1. One who is not a quant (a quantitative analyst).
    • "There was a lot of suspicion internally," recalls [Till] Guldimann, because traders and executives — nonquants — didn't believe that such a thing could be quantified mathematically.2009 January 4, Joe Nocera, “Risk Mismanagement”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2023
    • The team does an excellent job sharing their complex ideas and concepts in a way that is easy to understand for quants and nonquants alike.2017 June 16, Wesley Gray, “Investment Blogs You Should be Reading”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023

Forms of nonquant

pluralnonquants

Origin of nonquant

From non- + quant.

Questions about nonquant

What does nonquant mean?
Nonquant means one who is not a quant (a quantitative analyst).
What part of speech is nonquant?
Nonquant is a noun.
What is the plural of nonquant?
The plural of nonquant is nonquants.

Words near nonquant in the dictionary

  1. nonqualitative
  2. nonqualitatively
  3. nonqualities
  4. nonquality
  5. nonquals
  6. nonquant
  7. nonquantal
  8. nonquantifiable
  9. nonquantified
  10. nonquantitative
  11. nonquantized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonquant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nonquant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonquant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.