Definitions
Excessive concern with minor rules, details, or formal learning.
Word origin
From Italian pedanteria, equivalent to pedant + -ry. Compare also French pédanterie.
Used in a sentence
“I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.”
“[T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Fussy precision”8 letters
02“Nitpicking”8 letters
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