innumeracyn.
/ɪˈnjuːmərəsi/ The quality or state of being innumerate.
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innumeracy1959
1959 15 to 18: Rep. Cent. Advisory Council for Educ. (Eng.) (Min. of Educ.) I. xxv. 271 If his numeracy has stopped short at the usual Fifth Form level, he is in danger of relapsing into innumeracy.
1960 Times Rev. Industry June 59/3 Handicap on British business was the ‘innumeracy’ of the population.
1965 New Scientist 5 Aug. 348/1 The word ‘innumeracy’, to describe an intellectual disability in regard to mathematics (and, by reference, to science) has become one of the vogue words of our time.
1970 Daily Tel. 22 Dec. 8 Lord Snow was complaining a decade ago about the vice of innumeracy.
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