entomophobe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We're not like the entomophiles who harbor spiders as housemates or derive sexual satisfaction from the tickling of ants. And we're certainly not crazy entomophobes who run panic-stricken into the streets upon encountering a cockroach […]"
- "Violet, 14, was concerned about causing pain to notorious entomophobe villager Blathers: “I never have him talk about the bugs because I know he hates bugs.”"
- "Salvador Dali is one of the best examples of an entomophobe. He used ants, grasshoppers and flies in his paintings based on his personal experiences."
- "Clinical treatment is over 90% effective but only about 12% of entomophobes actively seeks help. […] The typical response of an entomophobe to either proximate or ultimate fears is to fight, flee, freeze, or foster (look after another with them, for example a parent for a child)."
Etymology
From entomo- + -phobe.