Meaning of numerophilia | Babel Free

Definitions

The love of numbers.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Some critics detected more chronic signs of 'numerophilia' in the analyses: a predilection for neglecting relevant variables that are not cardinally measurable.”

“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.”

“You would think⟳, given my numerophilia, that I would have⟳ some warm and special place⟳ in my heart for π. Nope.”

“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.”

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