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quantomania

quantomania noun: a focus on countable, measurable entities to the exclusion of other factors.

Noun

quantomania (uncountable)

  1. A focus on countable, measurable entities to the exclusion of other factors.
    • “A kind of quantomania prevails in the assessment of technologies,” Dr. Hoos wrote in 1979 in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. “What cannot be counted simply doesn’t count, and so we systematically ignore large and important areas of concern.”2007 May 5, Katie Hafner, “Ida R. Hoos Is Dead at 94; a Critic of Systems Analysis”, in New York Times

Questions about quantomania

What does quantomania mean?
Quantomania means a focus on countable, measurable entities to the exclusion of other factors.
What part of speech is quantomania?
Quantomania is a noun.

Words near quantomania in the dictionary

  1. quantland
  2. Quantock Hills
  3. Quantocks
  4. quantoid
  5. quantoids
  6. quantomania
  7. quantomechanic
  8. quantomechanical
  9. quantomechanics
  10. quantometer
  11. quantometers

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