pedantry
/ˈpɛd(ə)ntri
/noun [mass noun]
Excessive concern with minor details and rules: to object to this is not mere pedantry...
- To criticise animation for being too perfect may seem like pedantry and it's clear that a lot of work went into the film.
- As a director, his perfectionism / pedantry would have tested the patience of any producer.
- So scrupulous, and so close to perfect: that's the impression the reader is intended to glean from such exercises in pedantry.
Synonyms
dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism;
overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, precision, exactness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness, finickiness, finicality;
captiousness, quibbling, hair-splitting, fault-finding, cavilling, carping, casuistry, sophistry
informal nitpicking
archaic pettifogging, pettifoggery
pretentiousness, pomposity, pompousness, dullness, tedium;
intellectualism, academicism, scholasticism, scholarliness, erudition, studiousness, didacticism, bookishness, pedagogism, donnishness
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