Meanings
- rareuncountableThe love of numbers.
You would think, given my numerophilia, that I would have some warm and special place in my heart for π. Nope.
2012 June 29, Jonathan Chang, “The tyranny of π”, in Scienceline, archived from the original on 27 Jun 20223 more examples
Some critics detected more chronic signs of 'numerophilia' in the analyses: a predilection for neglecting relevant variables that are not cardinally measurable.
1988, Timothy A. Booth, Developing Policy Research, Avebury, →ISBN, page 93Many 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.
2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VIIn 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.
2020, Neil Thin, A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 7Antonyms: numerophobia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe love of numbers.
Origin
Cite this entry
numerophilia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numerophilia
“numerophilia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numerophilia. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “numerophilia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numerophilia.
Source: numerophilia on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.