Meaning and example
(Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia
The passage used "panacea" to mean (greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of aesculapius and sister of hygeia.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.898 places panacea in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 81.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 81.7%
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
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- 81.6%
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- 82.3%
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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