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Panacea vs Solution - What's the difference?

panacea | solution |

As nouns the difference between panacea and solution

is that panacea is a remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all while solution is a homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.

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 remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
  • Something that will solve all problems.
    • A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
  • (obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
    • 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, woundwort

    See also

    * nostrum English words prefixed with pan- ----

    solution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
  • An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
  • The answer to a problem.
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    • , title= , chapter=5 citation , passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
  • A product, service or suite thereof.
  • (legal, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
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    • Antonyms

    * problem