pedantry

Traduzioni

pedantrynoun
pedantries
pl
His pedantry often annoyed his colleagues.
Его педантизм часто раздражал его коллег.

Definizioni

pedantrynoun
Excessive concern with minor details and rules.
His pedantry in correcting every small grammatical error made conversations with him quite tedious.
An instance of being overly concerned with formalism and precision.
The professor's pedantry was evident when he spent an entire lecture on the proper use of semicolons.
An ostentatious or inappropriate display of academic knowledge or learning.
Her speech slid into pedantry when she began reciting obscure Latin quotations.