Numerophile

Quick meaning: Numerophile is a noun meaning (rare) Someone who loves numbers.

Meaning

(rare) Someone who loves numbers.

Example Sentences

If you're a numerophile and a pedant, then you may fret over my somewhat contemptuous handling of significant digits below.

But a quick glance at their methodology is all that's needed to convince even the most avid numerophile that the results are worthless.

It is therefore profoundly ironic, and unsettling for both numerophiles and subjectivists alike, that public awareness of trends in subjective experience should come to us mainly in numerical form.

By the time he [Edward Gibbon] began his great History, he was a confirmed numerophile. Some consideration of his education in numeracy, and of the writings of his first period of residence in Lausanne (1753–58), will therefore contribute to an understanding of why there are so many numbers in his History, and of the different ways in which he uses them.

Word Forms

• numerophiles

Antonyms for numerophile

Common opposites include numerophobe.

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