pedantry.
An excessive attention to detail or rules.
Meaning & usage
An excessive attention to detail or rules.
An excessive attention to detail or rules. An instance of such behaviour.
I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
An overly ambitious display of learning.
Where this word comes from
From Italian pedanteria, equivalent to pedant + -ry. Compare also French pédanterie.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.