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pedantry
Pedantry is an excessive attention to the rules or paying strong attention to the minor points of learning. (noun)
- An example of pedantry is a friend standing in line for a show not letting another friend cut in line in front of them.
- An example of pedantry is a teacher insisting that the students learn the minute, obscure details of a subject.
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