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pedantics

noun

Etymology

From pedantic + -ics.

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

Definitions

  1. Pedantic details.

    • I deal with this type of thing every day and while I do not go into pedantics we must have scientific evidence gathered in each area to put the problem into perspective.
    • He highlights the stylistic conceits and ambiguity that often turn quite ordinary statements into ponderous pedantics.

  2. Pedantry

    Pedantry; the quality of being pedantic.

    • It would be far better if the expression of the view of the Senate were arrived at without the necessity for pedantics—although I am not suggesting that pedantics are involved in this case—or the tagging on of things.
    • It has to be imaginative, but at the same time we have to do a certain amount of pedantics. What I might call pedantic research to answer the questions that our first witness has to have each year.
    • The lack of pretension, mentioned above, is present in the music, also. Pomposity and pedantics are absent from this score.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pedantics. 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