Pedantry vs. Pedanticness

Pedantry and Pedanticness Definitions

The ostentatious display of academic knowledge, or undue attention paid to minor details or formal rules

His detailed research was dismissed as pedantry.

(rare) pedantry.

An instance of pedantic behavior

Grew tired of his pedantries.

An excessive attention to detail or rules.

An instance of such behaviour.

I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.

An overly ambitious display of learning.

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry.

A ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning