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Synonyms of pedantry in English:

pedantry


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noun

1‘keeping the two distinct is more than mere pedantry’

SYNONYMS
dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism
overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, precision, exactness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness, finickiness, finicality
captiousness, quibbling, hair-splitting, fault-finding, cavilling, carping, casuistry, sophistry
informal nitpicking
archaic pettifogging, pettifoggery

2‘the book lacks the creaking pedantry of many such works’

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pretentiousness, pomposity, pompousness, dullness, tedium
intellectualism, academicism, scholasticism, scholarliness, erudition, studiousness, didacticism, bookishness, pedagogism, donnishness