Pedantry synonyms

pĕd'n-trē

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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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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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dogmatism
Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
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pedagogery
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finicalness
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egotism (related)
Constant, excessive reference to oneself in speaking or writing
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vulgarity (related)
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pretentiousness (related)
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nit-picking (related)
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pomposity (related)
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hyperbole (related)
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affectation (related)
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flippancy (related)
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self-justification (related)
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Find another word for pedantry. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pedantry, like: sophistry, precision, exactness, meticulousness, display of knowledge, bookishness, pretension, dogmatism, pedagogery, finicalness and egotism.
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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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