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Pedantry and Pedanticness Definitions

Pedantry

The ostentatious display of academic knowledge, or undue attention paid to minor details or formal rules
His detailed research was dismissed as pedantry.

Pedanticness

(rare) pedantry.

Pedantry

An instance of pedantic behavior
Grew tired of his pedantries.

Pedantry

An excessive attention to detail or rules.

Pedantry

An instance of such behaviour.
I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
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Pedantry

An overly ambitious display of learning.

Pedantry

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry.

Pedantry

A ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

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