numeracy

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈnjuːməɹəsi/ (UK)

Definition of numeracy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Numerical skill.
    “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.”
    “Numeracy includes such things as comprehending intuitively that a mean can sometimes be vastly different from a median and thus does not always represent a typical specimen, even despite being called "average".”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Numerical skill.
    “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.”
    “Numeracy includes such things as comprehending intuitively that a mean can sometimes be vastly different from a median and thus does not always represent a typical specimen, even despite being called "average".”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Numerical skill.
    “The man lost all numeracy when he had a stroke, so he now depended on his wife for even the simplest financial matters, such as making change or paying a cashier.”

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Etymology

From numerate + -cy, from Latin numerus; coined with numerate in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.

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