arithmomania

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noun

An obsessive preoccupation with numbers, calculations, and counting.

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β€œNikola Tesla was notorious for his compulsion to count items, especially in his later years. ... His arithmomania was an expression of what some modern psychologists believe to be his OCD.” Amy M. O’Quinn; Nikola Tesla for Kids; Chicago Review Press; 2019.
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