Twisted Panglossia

[Sean Ross]

"Dave Benjamin" <ramen at lackingtalent.com> wrote in message
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> A search for "Pollyannaishness" on Google returns 3 results. Merriam
Webster
> offers no definition. Care to elucidate this obfuscation? =)
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Pollyanna
SYLLABICATION: Pol·ly·an·na
NOUN: A person regarded as being foolishly or blindly optimistic.
ETYMOLOGY: After the heroine of the novel Pollyanna, by Eleanor Hodgman
Porter (1868-1920), American writer.

from uk.culture.language.english
"Eleanor Porter's "Pollyanna" describes a sentimental optimist."

"A wide-eyed (meaning naive or child-like) optimist"