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innumeracy

noun

Etymology

From in- + numeracy; coined by Douglas Hofstadter and popularized by mathematician John Allen Paulos in his 1989 book Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences.

  1. derived from numerus
  2. prefixed as innumeracy — “in + numeracy”

Definitions

  1. Lack of numeracy

    Lack of numeracy; low numeracy.

    • John Allen Paulos and others have asked our society to consider numeracy and innumeracy in a way closer to how we view literacy and illiteracy.
    • The man suffered from innumeracy stemming from a brain injury, and depended on his wife for all financial matters, no matter how trivial.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for innumeracy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA