Other forms: panaceas
A panacea is a supposed cure for every problem there is. No panacea, sold as a panacea, not a panacea.
It is used almost entirely in the negative, since saying something is no panacea concedes it helps and denies that it solves everything. The Greek means all-healing, and Panacea was a goddess of healing.
1nounpanaceaA supposed cure for every problem there is.
“The salesman claimed his herbal tea was a panacea for everything from headaches to heartbreak.”
panacea is a cure.
Greek panakeia means all-healing, from pan, all, plus akos, a cure.
Ancient Greek
πανάκεια
Latin
panacēa
English, today
panacea
Built from
From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια, from πανακής (“all-healing”), from πᾶν (“all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (“cure”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA