Pedantry

Noun

 * 1) An excessive attention to detail or rules.
 * 2) An instance of such behaviour.
 * I don't want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
 * 1) An overly ambitious display of learning.
 * Winston Churchill was once informed that one should not end a sentence with a preposition. His response was, That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Related terms

 * pedant
 * pedantic
 * pedantocracy

Adjectives for Pedantry
display—; encrust with-—; engender—; ridicule—; savor of—; scorn—; shake off—; — affects; —concludes; —disgusts; —dogmat¬izes; —obtrudes; —overestimates; —overacts; —poses; —prejudices; —presumes; — proceeds from; —repels.

Thesaurus
bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, ceremonialism, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, elegance, eruditeness, erudition, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, legalism, letters, literacy, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantism, preciosity, preciousness, preciseness, precisianism, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, reading, ritualism, scholarship, scrupulousness

Etymology
Confer French pédanterie:.

Translations

 * Finnish: pikkutarkkuus,


 * Icelandic: smámunasemi, smásmygli


 * Finnish: viisastelu, saivartelu


 * Icelandic: smámunasemi, smásmygli


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: viisastelu, rikkiviisaus
 * French: pédanterie
 * German: Pedanterie


 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דקדוקי עניות
 * Korean: 현학
 * Spanish: