Pedantry vs. Pedanticness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pedantry and Pedanticness
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Pedantry
Excessive concern with minor details and rules
To object to this is not mere pedantry
Pedanticness
(rare) pedantry.
Pedantry
The ostentatious display of academic knowledge, or undue attention paid to minor details or formal rules
His detailed research was dismissed as pedantry.
Pedantry
An instance of pedantic behavior
Grew tired of his pedantries.
Pedantry
An excessive attention to detail or rules.
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Pedantry
An instance of such behaviour.
I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
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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