numerophobe

plural numerophobes

1. rareSomeone who hates or is afraid of numbers.

   By painting the critics as mindless numerophobes, he implants the notion that their doubts are not to be entertained.

   1998, David P. Henige, Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 135

   4 more examples

   If you are on the invisible other side of the mainstream, you are likely to be a humanist, maybe even an artist, maybe a numerophobe, or a person with a solid contempt for the cultural and intellectual style of right-wing youth.

   1983, Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, →ISBN, page 5

   Statistics and mathematics have been kept scarce and simple and even the most extreme 'numerophobe' should find nothing to produce anxiety or panic.

   1994, Tony Waldron, Counting the Dead: The Epidemiology of Skeletal Populations, Wiley, →ISBN, page XIII

   Even the biggest numerophobe would have a hard time poo-pooing something that tries to measure the one stat that matters in soccer (namely: how many did you score?).

   2015 April 9, Michael Bertin, “Why Soccer's Most Popular Advanced Stat Kind Of Sucks”, in Deadspin, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022

   This post has math in it. Quite a bit. But it's really just arithmetic; decimals and multiplication. If you're a numerophobe, then skip to the end, but you'll have to trust me on the numbers.

   2020 March 23, Phil Plait, “Why do we have leap days?”, in SYFY WIRE, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022

   Antonyms: numerophile