numerophilia
English
Etymology
From numero- + -philia.
Noun
numerophilia (uncountable)
- (rare) The love of numbers.
- Antonym: numerophobia
- 1988, Timothy A. Booth, Developing Policy Research, Avebury, →ISBN, page 93:
- Some critics detected more chronic signs of 'numerophilia' in the analyses: a predilection for neglecting relevant variables that are not cardinally measurable.
- 2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI:
- 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.
- 2012 June 29, Jonathan Chang, “The tyranny of π”, in Scienceline, archived from the original on 2022-06-27:
- You would think, given my numerophilia, that I would have some warm and special place in my heart for π. Nope.
- 2020, Neil Thin, A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
- In other words, it is wrong to conceive of GDP obsession giving too much priority to 'the economy'. Rather, it is part of a wider problem of pathological numerophilia.
Related terms
- numerophile
- numerophilic