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pedanticism

noun

Etymology

From pedantic + -ism.

  1. derived from pedante — “a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”
  2. borrowed from pedant
  3. formed as pedantic — “pedant + -ic”
  4. suffixed as pedanticism — “pedantic + ism”

Definitions

  1. pedantry

    • Yet her dance-and-music spectacle, ending with the phrase “You need to rebel against negativity,” teems with pedanticism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pedanticism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA