Home › Words › P › pedanticismpedanticismpedanticism · noun — pedantry.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom pedantic + -ism.nounpedantrye.g.“Yet her dance-and-music spectacle, ending with the phrase “You need to rebel against negativity,” teems with pedanticism.” — 2008 April 7, Gia Kourlas, “E-Moting, E-Volving and Tipping Toward Tap”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pedancy 82% match — Pedantry; pedanticness. vs pedanticism →pedanticness 82% match — Synonym of pedantry. vs pedanticism →pedantry 78% match — An excessive attention to detail or rules. vs pedanticism →pedanticize 76% match — To be a pedant. vs pedanticism →pedantics 75% match — Pedantic details. vs pedanticism →pedantize 73% match — To act pedantically; to use pedantic expressions. vs pedanticism →pedagoguery 72% match — pedantic teaching or lecturing; didacticism vs pedanticism →overpedantically 66% match — Too pedantically. vs pedanticism →