Panacea vs Panache - What's the difference?
panacea | panache |
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:
(countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
* 1896 — , Chapter 4
(uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
* 1894 —
As nouns the difference between panacea and panache
is that panacea is a remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all while panache is an ornamental plume on a helmet.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- ----panache
English
(wikipedia panache)Noun
- I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
- One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.