pedantry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

WordNet

Ped"ant*ry noun
Etymology
Cf. F. pédanterie.
Definitions
  1. The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley.
    'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1913