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A panacea is something people think will make everything better — one medicine, one plan, one idea that is supposed to fix every problem. In Greek story, Panacea was a goddess of healing; English borrowed the name and then, though actually, almost never uses it for a real pill. People use it when they are doubtful. “There is no panacea” is the usual sentence: no single change will fix a school, no single food will make you healthy, no single app will save your time. If someone offers a panacea, a careful speaker hears a warning: the promise is too big. It is a grown-up, slightly formal word, common in news and essays, rare in the playground, but the idea is easy: one key that opens every lock, which real life almost never has.
組成From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek panákeia, from panakḗs, “all-healing”: pân “all” (English pan-) + ákos “cure.” Also the name of the goddess Panakeia, “the all-curing one.”
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Panaceaname/ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
panaceanoun/ˌpænəˈsiːə/
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A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
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A solution to all problems.
- A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
- When busy he was better, and appeared to think perpetual motion a panacea for his unnamed and un-nameable complaint; and so much were they hurried from place to place, after their arrival at Genoa, that both sisters were thankful when they embarked again, as the sea appeared a resting-place...
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obsoleteThe plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
- There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]
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