Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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Pedantry
Synonyms for "pedantry" (48 found)
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38 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- педантизъм noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Catalan
2 entries- pedanteria noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- pedanteria noun (instance of being pedantic)
Danish
1 entries- pedanteri noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Dutch
3 entries- betweterigheid noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- frikkerigheid noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- pedanterie noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
Finnish
4 entries- pedanttisuus noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- pikkutarkkuus noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- rikkiviisaus noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
- saivartelu noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
French
3 entries- pédanterie noun (instance of being pedantic)
- pédanterie noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
- pédantisme noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
German
2 entries- Pedanterie noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- Pedanterie noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
Greek
2 entries- δοκησισοφία noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
- σχολαστικότητα noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Hebrew
1 entries- דקדוקי עניות noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
Hungarian
1 entries- pedantéria noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Icelandic
4 entries- smámunasemi noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- smámunasemi noun (instance of being pedantic)
- smásmygli noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- smásmygli noun (instance of being pedantic)
Italian
1 entries- pedantismo noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Korean
1 entries- 현학 noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
Polish
1 entries- pedanteria noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Portuguese
3 entries- pedantice noun (instance of being pedantic)
- pedantismo noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- pedantismo noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
Russian
2 entries- педанти́зм noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
- педанти́чность noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Spanish
2 entries- pedantería noun (instance of being pedantic)
- pedantería noun (overly ambitious display of learning)
Swedish
1 entries- pedanteri noun (excessive attention to detail or rules)
Sample sentences
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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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