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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pedantry \Ped"ant*ry\, n. [Cf. F. p['e]danterie.] The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." --Cowley. [1913 Webster] 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pedantry n 1: an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedantry": bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, ceremonialism, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, elegance, eruditeness, erudition, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, legalism, letters, literacy, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantism, preciosity, preciousness, preciseness, precisianism, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, reading, ritualism, scholarship, scrupulousness