numerophobia
English
Etymology
Noun
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 2 May 2019:
- 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.
- 2020 August, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts[2], volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, page 820:
- The specific mathematics phobia which is basically comes due to the arithmetic or fear of numbers. Such phobia is called arithmophobia or numerophobia. The words arithmophobia and numerophobia both have Greek origins where the root word stands for 'numbers', and 'phobos' meaning 'deep dislike or fear'.
- 2022 July 30, T. Rammohan, “Strategies to prepare for the CAT”, in The Hindu[3], archived from the original on 13 November 2022:
- If you are comfortable with the basic concepts of Maths and don’t suffer from numerophobia, you are at an advantage.