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- n. A (supposed) universal medicine; a panacea.
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phrontistery - p
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The Fixer
Got a problem? Find the solution here. All the words herelisted are guaranteed to make other stuff better. If not satisfied see John for your money back or go ask Abby.
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rememberers
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Merry Scholar
festschrift, panchreston, opisthograph, entrelac, florilegium, passim, grammelot, incipit, goropize, shibboleth, enchiridion, scholium and 17 more...
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Panaceaseless
Various concepts that might surround The Fountain of Youth.
yearling, revirescent, juvenescent, neanimorphism, horapthia, voice lift, paedomorphism, shunamitism, torschlusspanik, roborant, rejuvenation, ageless and 63 more...
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points of clarification
. . . or not
panchreston, ignotum per ignotius, amplify, expound, clarify, explain, lay bare, law of parsimony, occam's razor, succinct, befuddle, disinformation and 8 more...
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Giuseppe Schiavone http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/panchreston
pan·chres·ton pan-kres-tuhn Show IPA
noun
a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
Here it's pretty clear. Just as adoarns said. Jul 21, 2011
uselessness See also: Occam's razor. And, uh, my profile. Dec 19, 2007
adoarns Is an explanation which attempts to explain too much at once, thereby becoming overbroad and useless.
Conspiracy theories are often panchresta. Dec 19, 2007