Pedantry vs. Pedantic

Pedantrynoun

An excessive attention to detail or rules.

Pedantrynoun

An instance of such behaviour.

Pedantrynoun

An overly ambitious display of learning.

Pedantrynoun

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

Pedantrynoun

a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

Pedantrynoun

excessive concern with minor details and rules

Pedanticadjective

Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

Pedanticadjective

Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

Pedanticadjective

Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.

Pedanticadjective

Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.

Pedanticadjective

marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Pedanticadjective

excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous