Pedantry Synonyms

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Synonyms for Pedantry

sophistry
(Countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
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precision
The state or quality of being precise; exactness.
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exactness
The state of being exact
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dogmatism
Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
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meticulousness
The state or characteristic of being meticulous.
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display of knowledge
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bookishness
The property of being bookish.
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pedagogery
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finicalness
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Words Related to Pedantry

pomposity
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hyperbole
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flippancy
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egotism
Constant, excessive reference to oneself in speaking or writing
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vulgarity
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Pedantry Sentence Examples

  • His poems are elegant and free from the conceits and pedantry of the earlier writers.

  • Learning, indeed, was often ridiculed as pedantry in a gentleman of good family.

  • He poses too much as a fine gentleman, and is so anxious not to be taken for a pedant of the vulgar scholastic kind that he falls into the hardly more attractive pedantry of the aesthete and virtuoso.

  • Marot and his school reacted against this pedantry.

  • He was an admirer of Marx's learning and analytical power, but he would never submit to the tyrannical pedantry of Marx's school and stood up for an elemental awaking of revolutionary instincts.

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