Pedancy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Pedantry; pedanticness. nonstandard, uncountable

    "It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom."

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"It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom."

Etymology

From pedant + -cy.

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