This may or may not be the case, but certainly panglossia, like parrhesia, denotes a readiness to utter anything. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It has been suggested that when he spoke with horror of panglossia in the second Olympian Ode, he had in mind the word parrhesia. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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