numerophilia
numerophilia noun: the love of numbers.
Noun
numerophilia (uncountable)
- The love of numbers.
- Some critics detected more chronic signs of 'numerophilia' in the analyses: a predilection for neglecting relevant variables that are not cardinally measurable.1988, Timothy A. Booth, Developing Policy Research, Avebury, →ISBN, page 93
- Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI
- Antonyms:
- numerophobia
Examples of numerophilia in a sentence
- You would think, given my numerophilia, that I would have some warm and special place in my heart for π.2012 June 29, Jonathan Chang, “The tyranny of π”, in Scienceline, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022:
- Rather, it is part of a wider problem of pathological numerophilia.2020, Neil Thin, A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
Antonyms of numerophilia
Origin of numerophilia
From numero- + -philia.
Questions about numerophilia
- What does numerophilia mean?
- Numerophilia means the love of numbers.
- How do you use numerophilia in a sentence?
- You would think, given my numerophilia, that I would have some warm and special place in my heart for π.
- What part of speech is numerophilia?
- Numerophilia is a noun.
Words near numerophilia in the dictionary
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