Learn English – synonym for “numerifying”

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I'm not even sure if "numerifying" is a word (my computer's spell check program doesn't seem to think so). But I'm looking for a word that describes translating experiences into numbers for comparison.

(I'm describing the QUALY, a tool used by utilitarians and welfare economists to compare benefits of various different courses of action that ordinarily would have been thought of as apples and oranges – for instance, curing blindness and curing AIDS.)

Best Answer

numerify doesn't seem like a "real" word to me (sorry!)

quantify may do the trick:

  1. to determine or express the quantity of; indicate the extent of; measure

  2. to express in quantitative terms, or as a numerical equivalent

    --Webster's New World College Dictionary

edited: I like the 2nd definition here better than the one I originally posted

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