Pedantry

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pedantry \Ped"ant*ry\, n. [Cf. F. p['e]danterie.]
     The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation
     of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." --Cowley.
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           'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. --Sir T.


                                                    Browne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pedantry
       n : a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedantry":
     bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning,
     book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, ceremonialism,
     classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, elegance,
     eruditeness, erudition, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness,
     formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, humanism,
     humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality,
     learnedness, legalism, letters, literacy, overniceness,
     overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantism, preciosity,
     preciousness, preciseness, precisianism, punctilio,
     punctiliousness, purism, reading, ritualism, scholarship,
     scrupulousness