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Pangloss

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Noun
  1. 1
    A naively or unreasonably optimistic person.

    "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."

Etymology

From Dr. Pangloss, a character in Voltaire's Candide.

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