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ped·ant·ry
(pĕd′n-trē)n. pl. ped·ant·ries
1. The ostentatious display of academic knowledge, or undue attention paid to minor details or formal rules: His detailed research was dismissed as pedantry.
2. An instance of pedantic behavior: grew tired of his pedantries.
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pedantry
(ˈpɛdəntrɪ)n, pl -ries
the habit or an instance of being a pedant, esp in the display of useless knowledge or minute observance of petty rules or details
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ped•ant•ry
(ˈpɛd n tri)n., pl. ped•ant•ries.
1. the character, qualities, or practices of a pedant, esp. undue display of learning.
2. slavish attention to formal rules or minute details.
3. an instance of being pedantic.
[1575–85; < Italian pedanteria]
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pedantry
pedanticism, def. 2.
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pedantry
noun
1. hairsplitting, quibbling, pomposity, sophistry, punctiliousness, finickiness, pettifoggery, finicality, overnicety The results of the survey are exhaustive to the point of pedantry.
2. stuffiness, pomposity, intellectualism, pretentiousness, bookishness, donnishness, pedagogism The novel suffers from pedantry and dullness.
Quotations
"Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge" [Holbrook Jackson Anatomy of Bibliomania]
"Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge" [Holbrook Jackson Anatomy of Bibliomania]
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Translations
تَحَذْلُق، إدّعاء المَعْرِفَه
pedanteriepuntičkářství
ordkløveripedanteri
pedanttisuuspikkutarkkuusrikkiviisaussaivarteluviisastelu
pedantériatudálékosság
smámunasemi
puntičkárstvo
ukalâlık
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pedantry
n → Pedanterie f
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pedant
(ˈpedənt) noun1. a person who makes a great show of his knowledge.
2. a person who attaches too much importance to minor details.
peˈdantic (-ˈdӕn-) adjectivepeˈdantically adverb
ˈpedantry noun
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