numerophilia

English

Etymology

From numero- +‎ -philia.

Noun

numerophilia (uncountable)

1. (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^[1], 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