The tendency for individuals or societies to withdraw attention from traumatic past experiences or future threats with major consequences but low probability.

(transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items). / (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.

comparative form of numb: more numb

(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity. / (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

(number theory) Any natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers.

A number used to denote quantity; a counting number; a cardinal. / (mathematics) A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets.

(grammar) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence. / (arithmetic) A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.

(mathematics) A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers.

(number theory) A number that is less than the sum of its proper divisors (all divisors except the number itself).

The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.