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Word | Pedantry |
French Meaning | pédantisme, minutie, rigueur, pédagogie |
a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning / an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning / The act, character, or manners of a pedant / excessive concern with minor details and rules., | |
Usage | ⇒ to object to this is not mere pedantry |
Synonyms | pretension, precision, affectation, euphuism, scholarship, bookishness, erudition, pomposity, precisianism, purism, reading, airs, display, learning, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bigotry, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, |
Antonyms | creativity, cleverness, conceit, concept, conception, contrivance, creation, creativeness, design, devaluation, device, fabrication, fantasy, fiction, imagination, innovation, inspiration, invention, inventiveness, originality, |
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