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panacea

noun
/ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/

Etymology

From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).

  1. derived from πανάκεια
  2. derived from panacēa

Definitions

  1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by…

    A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.

  2. A solution to all problems.

    • A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
    • Podson was seated on the bed, going through such turf forecasts as he could find in the papers; his panacea for correcting the mistakes of fortune.

  3. The 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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    1. The goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves,…

      The goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.

The neighborhood

Derived

panacean, panaceist

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at panacea. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at panacea. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at panacea

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA