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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