different between excessive vs pedantry

English

Etymology

From Middle French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s?s?v/
• Rhymes: -?s?v

Adjective

excessive (comparative more excessive, superlative most excessive)

1. Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Antonyms

• insufficient
• deficient

Derived terms

• excessive number

Related terms

• exceed
• excess

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.s?.siv/

Adjective

excessive

1. feminine singular of excessif

Interlingua

Adjective

excessive (comparative plus excessive, superlative le plus excessive)

1. excessive

Related terms

• excesso

Latin

Adjective

excess?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of excess?vus

English

Etymology

pedant + -ry. From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), of uncertain origin, traced by some sources to Latin paedagogans, present participle of paedagogare ( = to teach, from Greek "paedagogein" = to instruct children ). Confer French pédanterie.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?p?d.?n.t?i/

Noun

pedantry (countable and uncountable, plural pedantries)

1. An excessive attention to detail or rules.
   1. An instance of such behaviour.

      I don't want to listen to your pedantries anymore.

      • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! Chapter 7

        […] the southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.

2. An overly ambitious display of learning.

Related terms

• pedant
• pedantic
• pedantocracy

Translations

Further reading

• pedantry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pedantry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pedantry at OneLook Dictionary Search