different between panic vs qualm

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæn?k/
• Rhymes: -æn?k

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek ??????? (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from ??? (Pán, “Pan”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.

Alternative forms

• panick (obsolete)

Adjective

panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
2. Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:

     All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:

     At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.

   • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:

     Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.

Noun

panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)

1. Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.

   • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.

   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

2. (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
3. (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)

1. (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
2. (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
3. (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
4. (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.

Translations

Related terms

• panicky

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin panicum.

Noun

panic

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Panicum.

Synonyms

• panicgrass, panic grass

Anagrams

• cap'in, incap

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa??t?s]
• Hyphenation: pa?nic

Noun

panic m anim (feminine panna)

1. male virgin

Declension

Related terms

• panna f
• pán m
• paní f

Further reading

• panic in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin panicum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.nik/

Noun

panic m (plural panics)

1. (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass

Synonyms

• pied-de-coq
• patte de poule
• crête de coq

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?it?s/

Noun

panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. male virgin

Declension

Derived terms

• panický
• panicky
• panickos?, panictvo

Related terms

• panna f

Further reading

• panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

English

Alternative forms

• calm (dialectal)

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English qualm, cwalm (“death, sickness, plague”), which is from Old English cwealm (West Saxon: "death, disaster, plague"), ?tcualm (Anglian: "utter destruction"), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm (“killing, death, destruction”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?elH- (“to stick, pierce; pain, injury, death”), whence also quell. Although the sense development is possible, this has the problem that there are no attestations in intermediate senses before the appearance of "pang of apprehension, etc." in the 16th century. The alternative etymology is from Dutch kwalm or German Qualm "steam, vapor, mist," earlier "daze, stupefaction", which is from the root of German quellen (“to stream, well up”). The sense "feeling of faintness" is from 1530; "uneasiness, doubt" from 1553; "scruple of conscience" from 1649.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?m/, /kw?m/, /kw?lm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw??m/, /kw??m/

Noun

qualm (plural qualms)

1. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. [from 16th c.]
2. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. [from 16th c.]
3. A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) [from 17th c.]

4. (archaic, Britain dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
5. (archaic, Britain dialectal) A calamity or disaster.

Synonyms

• compunction
• misgiving
• scruple
• unease/uneasiness
• See Thesaurus:apprehension

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

qualm (third-person singular simple present qualms, present participle qualming, simple past and past participle qualmed)

1. (intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “qualm”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cwalm, cualm, qwalm, qualme

Etymology

From Old English cwealm, from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwalm/

Noun

qualm

1. Plague, disease or sickness; that which afflicts.
2. The effects, fruits, or ravages of plague.
3. (rare) Killing (as a concept or as an instance)

Descendants

• English: qualm (possibly)
• Scots: qualm (possibly)

References

• “qualm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-12.