paedantry

Noun

pedantry (countable and uncountable, plural pedantries)

1. An excessive attention to detail or rules.
   • They had heard people call things pedantic, which they did not think were so ; for instance, a boy had once said that Harry himself was a pedant, for talking of the siege of Syracuse, and of the machines used there, because the boy knew nothing about them, and disliked reading. "Then you perceive,"...1825, "Works" by Maria Edgeworth page 150
   1. An instance of such behaviour.
      • I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
2. An overly ambitious display of learning.