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- noun A (supposed) universal medicine; a panacea.
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adoarns commented on the word panchreston
Is an explanation which attempts to explain too much at once, thereby becoming overbroad and useless.
Conspiracy theories are often panchresta.
December 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word panchreston
See also: Occam's razor. And, uh, my profile.
December 19, 2007
693929598 commented on the word panchreston
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.
July 21, 2011