Calm vs Panic - What's the difference?
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(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with little waves on the surface.
Without wind or storm.
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
* Bible, Mark iv. 39
To make calm.
* Dryden
To become calm.
Pertaining to the god Pan.
Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of ).
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* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p.537:
* 1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic , bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
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*:With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic , stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
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To feel overwhelming fear.
(botany) A plant of the genus Panicum .
As adjectives the difference between calm and panic
is that calm is (of a person) peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety while panic is pandean.As a noun calm
is (in a person) the state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.As a verb calm
is to make calm.calm
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* (free from anger and anxiety) stressed, nervous, anxious * (free of noise and disturbance) disturbed * (without wind or storm) windy, stormyDerived terms
* calm as a millpond * ice-calmNoun
(en noun)- The wind ceased, and there was a great calm .
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* ice-calmVerb
(en verb)- to calm a crying baby
- to calm the passions
- to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus
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* calm down, cool off, ease, pacify, quieten, soothe, subdueAnagrams
* ----panic
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(wikipedia panic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) panique, from (etyl) . is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.Alternative forms
* panick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
