Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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Pedantry
Synonyms for "pedantry" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Noun(4 words)
bibliolatrybibliomaniabluestockingismbook learningbook madnessbookinessbookishnessbookloreceremonialismclassical scholarshipclassicism
Strong matches (23)
Noun(9 words)
Verb(1 words)
follow to the letter
Related words (37)
humanistic scholarshipintellectualismintellectualitylearnednesslegalismlettersliteracyovernicenessoverprecisenessoverrefinementpedantismpreciositypreciousnessprecisenessprecisianismpunctiliopunctiliousnesspurismreadingritualism
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Noun(15 words)
nitpicknitpickingnitpicksover-criticismpedanticalnesspedanticnessphilosophizingquibblequibblesquibblingrigorismstodginesstrivialitiesverbalism phenomenonverbalism term
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4 entriesacademic pedantrylinguistic pedantrystudent pedantryteacher pedantry
Collocations
6 entriesacademic pedantrylinguistic pedantrymeticulous pedantrypetty pedantryrigid pedantryscholarly pedantry
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- педантизъм noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Catalan
1 entries- pedanteria noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Danish
1 entries- pedanteri noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Dutch
2 entries- betweterigheid noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- frikkerigheid noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Finnish
3 entries- pedanttisuus noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- pikkutarkkuus noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- saivartelu noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
French
1 entries- pédantisme noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
German
1 entries- Pedanterie noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Greek
1 entries- σχολαστικότητα noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Hungarian
1 entries- pedantéria noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Icelandic
2 entries- smámunasemi noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- smásmygli noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Italian
1 entries- pedantismo noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Polish
1 entries- pedanteria noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Portuguese
1 entries- pedantismo noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Russian
2 entries- педанти́зм noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- педанти́чность noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Swedish
1 entries- pedanteri noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
It's more productive to concede a point of pedantry than to spend all day arguing about it.
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This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
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Every step towards organization raises a crop of vices peculiar to itself, fresh developments of the egotism and greed and vanity of those into whose hands there falls control, fresh instances of that hostile pedantry which seems so natural to officials and managers, insurgencies and obstinacies and suspicions on the part of everyone.
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