Panacea vs Alchemy - What's the difference?
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A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
Something that will solve all problems.
(obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
(label) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
As nouns the difference between panacea and alchemy
is that panacea is a remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all while alchemy is the ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.As a proper noun Panacea
is the goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.panacea
English
Noun
- A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
- There, whether it diuine Tobacco'' were, / Or ''Panachæa'' , or ''Polygony , / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].
Synonyms
* (remedy to cure all disease) catholicon, cure-all * (plant) allheal, woundwortSee also
* nostrum English words prefixed with pan- ----alchemy
English
(wikipedia alchemy)Noun
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy .}}
