Meanings
- uncountableFear of wasps.
I want to hear from others who are scared of being stung so they stay away from fun occasions to avoid the possibility.
2006 December 7, A MUZEing.., “It's nearly summer.. spheksophobia season!”, in Plenty Of Fish, retrieved 28 Jun 20101 more example
A few episodes of harvesting ripe peaches and plums and getting viciously stung by the winged insects hiding inside the splitting fruit is more than sufficient to trigger a bout of spheksophobia, the fear of wasps.
2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, page 211
Origin
- Ancient Greekσφήξ“wasp”
- Englishspheksophobia
From Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”) + -phobia.
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spheksophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spheksophobia
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