different between pedantry vs pedantism

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

English

Etymology

pedant +? -ism

Noun

pedantism (plural pedantisms)

1. (rare) Behaving or acting in the manner of a pedant.

Synonyms

• pedanticism
• pedantry (more common)

Anagrams

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Romanian

Etymology

From French pédantisme.

Noun

pedantism n (uncountable)

1. pedantry

Declension