numerophobia
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]numerophobia (uncountable)
- (rare) The hatred or fear of numbers.
- Antonym: numerophilia
- 1991, Steven Gottlieb, Sheldon I. Arenberg, Crime Analysis: From Concept to Reality, Office of Criminal Justice Planning, page 176:
- While some folks are afraid of heights or enclosed places, others are plagued by numerophobia, a fear of numbers. This often results from one's having had difficulty with them in school and his or her coming to the conclusion that "I'm just not good at math."
- 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.
- 2019 April 28, “How long shall we suffer fools, loons?”, in The Sunday Mail[1], archived from the original on 2019-05-02:
- Well, Bishop Lazi, as a man given to spirituality and was known during his school days for an incurable numerophobia (fear of numbers) and arithmophobia (fear of arithmetic), doesn’t lose sleep over all this scientific gobbledygook.
- 2022 July 30, T. Rammohan, “Strategies to prepare for the CAT”, in The Hindu[2], archived from the original on 2022-11-13:
- If you are comfortable with the basic concepts of Maths and don’t suffer from numerophobia, you are at an advantage.