Pedanticism

noun

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Noun

1
pedantry countable, uncountable
"Yet her dance-and-music spectacle, ending with the phrase “You need to rebel against negativity,” teems with pedanticism."

Synonyms

pedantism pedantism

Example

"Yet her dance-and-music spectacle, ending with the phrase “You need to rebel against negativity,” teems with pedanticism."

Etymology

From pedantic + -ism.

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