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Pangloss (plural Panglosses)

1. A naively or unreasonably optimistic person.
   • 1797 July, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “LXXIV. To Robert Southey”, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge, editor, Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1895, page 224:

     I am as much a Pangloss as ever, only less contemptuous than I used to be, when I argue how unwise it is to feel contempt for anything.

関連する語

• Panglossian
• Panglossianism
• Panglossic