Crossword clues for numerology
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The study of the purported mystical relationship between numbers and the character or action of physical objects and living things.
WordNet
n. the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs
Wikipedia
Numerology is any belief in the divine, mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. It is also the study of the numerical value of the letters in words, names and ideas. It is often associated with the paranormal, alongside astrology and similar divinatory arts.
Despite the long history of numerological ideas, the word "numerology" is not recorded in English before c.1907.
The term numerologist can be used for those who place faith in numerical patterns and draw pseudo-scientific inferences from them, even if those people do not practice traditional numerology. For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought, mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to discuss practitioners of the Elliott wave principle of stock market analysis.
Numerology is an element of Ismailis belief; the idea that numbers have religious meanings. The number seven plays a general role in the theology of the Ismā'īliyya, including mystical speculations that there are seven heavens, seven continents, seven orifices in the skull, seven days in a week, seven prophets, and so forth.
Usage examples of "numerology".
She brought them little glasses of dry sherry, and they began to converse in an animated fashion, discovering they had a common interest in astrology, lecithin, numerology, and UFOS.
For you, it could be astrology, numerology, yoga, dance, dowsing, meditation, astral projection, hypnotic regression, dreamwork, breathwork or religion.
Numerology, however, lends itself to quackery, and one 90 should only go to a numerologist who has an established reputation because some of the back-street practitioners merely want your money, they do not want to help you as well.
A year later some officials in Washington were giving serious consideration to an offer from a California-based management recruiting firm to screen NASO flight-crew applicants on the basis of a crank numerology system involving computerized personal “psychometric aptitudinal configurator charts.
The lottery ticket suckers, decorticated by hope and numerology, may as well be victims of Post-Timequake Apathy.
They made trips to the Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood and investigated all manner of metaphysical techniques, gurus, and literature: meditation, TM, Judeo-Christianity, Buddhism, psychic phenomena, astrology, and numerology.
Father Captain de Soya thought it a bit much, all this cabalistic numerology -- seven archangels, seven target systems, seven archdemons, seven deadly sins.
Much of Chinese numerology stemmed from the fact that Chinese, in all its varied dialects, was a homonymous language.
If Simon Moon majored in mathematics and was so obsessed with numerology, why didn't he ever notice the most significant 23 in mathematical history—the 23 definitions that open Euclid's Geometry?
Which put the question into the background, while council members consulted numerologists on truly important issues such as (the currently raging question) whether the launch dates were auspicious or not, and how many dates it was auspicious to approve in reserve—which got into another debate between several competing (and ethnically significant) schools of numerology, on whether the current date should be in the calculation or whether one counted the birthdate of the whole program or of the project or of the date the launch table was devised.