Home › Words › P › pedanticspedanticspedantics means pedantic details.EtymologyFrom pedantic + -ics.nounPedantic details.e.g.“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.” — 1976, Fish and Wildlife Miscellaneous—Part 4: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of RePedantry; the quality of being pedantic.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pedanticism 75% match — pedantry vs pedantics →pedancy 72% match — Pedantry; pedanticness. vs pedantics →pedanticness 71% match — Synonym of pedantry. vs pedantics →pedantry 71% match — An excessive attention to detail or rules. vs pedantics →pedanticize 69% match — To be a pedant. vs pedantics →pedantize 67% match — To act pedantically; to use pedantic expressions. vs pedantics →pernickety 66% match — Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious. vs pedantics →overpedantically 65% match — Too pedantically. vs pedantics →