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numerophobia

numerophobia noun: the hatred or fear of numbers.

Noun

numerophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The hatred or fear of numbers.
    • While some folks are afraid of heights or enclosed places, others are plagued by numerophobia, a fear of numbers. This often results from one's having had difficulty with them in school and his or her coming to the conclusion that "I'm just not good at math."1991, Steven Gottlieb, Sheldon I. Arenberg, Crime Analysis: From Concept to Reality, Office of Criminal Justice Planning, page 176
    • 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:
    numerophilia

numerophobia meaning in Tamil

numerophobia in Tamil

எண் வெருளி

Examples of numerophobia in a sentence

  • Such phobia is called arithmophobia or numerophobia.2020 August, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research...
  • If you are comfortable with the basic concepts of Maths and don’t suffer from numerophobia, you are at an advantage.2022 July 30, T. Rammohan, “Strategies to prepare for the CAT”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2022:

Antonyms of numerophobia

Origin of numerophobia

From numero- + -phobia.

Questions about numerophobia

What does numerophobia mean?
Numerophobia means the hatred or fear of numbers.
What is numerophobia in Tamil?
Numerophobia in Tamil is எண் வெருளி. See Numerophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use numerophobia in a sentence?
Such phobia is called arithmophobia or numerophobia.
What part of speech is numerophobia?
Numerophobia is a noun.

Words near numerophobia in the dictionary

  1. numerophiles
  2. numerophilia
  3. numerophilic
  4. numerophobe
  5. numerophobes
  6. numerophobia
  7. numerophobic
  8. numerose
  9. numerosities
  10. numerosity
  11. numerous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: numerophobia (page history and authors); numerophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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