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What is the noun for pedantry?

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pedantry
  1. An excessive attention to detail or rules.
  2. An instance of such behaviour.
  3. An overly ambitious display of learning.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The professor's pedantry led her to endlessly nitpick every student's essay, focusing solely on minor grammatical errors instead of providing constructive feedback on the content.”
      “Her endless pedantry about grammar and punctuation often made her difficult to work with.”
      “In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.”
pedanticism
  1. pedantry
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Sometimes exactitude verges on pedanticism.”
      “Gradually Hughes developed reservations about what he perceived as the increasing pedanticism in Tolson's verse.”
pedanticisms
pedantries
  1. plural of pedantry
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Distracting you from these nagging pedantries is a startlingly farcical plot with some bizarre touches.”
      “On the other hand, a serious study of movie classification would not waste so much space on the pedantries of NC-17, however laughable they are.”
      “These sort of pedantries were a passion with him, and I did not interpose a word as he spoke.”
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