'Pedantry' definitions:
Definition of 'pedantry'
(from WordNet)
noun
An ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
Definition of 'Pedantry'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pedantry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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