pedantry

[ ped-n-tree ]

/ ˈpɛd n tri /

the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.

slavish attention to rules, details, etc.

an instance of being pedantic: the pedantries of modern criticism.

Origin of pedantry

First recorded in 1575–85, pedantry is from the Italian word pedanteria. See pedant, -ry

pedalfer, pedalo, pedant, pedantic, pedanticism, pedantry, pedate, pedatifid, peddle, peddler, peddlery

The rumble at Hofstra was thrilling—a heady blend of testosterone and pedantry.

At Last, a Passionate Political Debate! |Tunku Varadarajan |October 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Seldom can testosterone and pedantry have come together in an American political debate in such electrifying marriage.

At Last, a Passionate Political Debate! |Tunku Varadarajan |October 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
With all the profession of knowledge which was assumed by the people of this age, there went a great deal of pedantry.

Women of England, Volume 9 (of 10) |Burleigh James Bartlett
This observation, more profound perhaps than she herself was aware, is an arraignment of pedantry in execution.

The Mind of the Artist |Various

But pedantry in this kind consists in using out-of-the-way terms when common ones are ready to hand.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 |George Saintsbury
Pardon the pedantry of a Latin quotation, my dear, and tell me how I look.

No Name |Wilkie Collins
The prevalence however of this pedantry, was chiefly owing to one poet, of great though short-lived renown, Pierre Ronsard.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 |Henry Hallam

pedantry

/ (ˈpɛdəntrɪ) /

the habit or an instance of being a pedant, esp in the display of useless knowledge or minute observance of petty rules or details