pedantics

Noun

1. Pedantic details.
   • I deal with this type of thing every day and while I do not go into pedantics we must have scientific evidence gathered in each area to put the problem into perspective. - 1976, Fish and Wildlife Miscellaneous—Part 4:...
   • In Addis Zemen, in particular, the old hortatory pedantics of the need for progress, economic development and bureaucratic efficiency continued even after the change of regime. The only aspect of the pedantics that...
   • He highlights the stylistic conceits and ambiguity that often turn quite ordinary statements into ponderous pedantics. - 1992, College Student Journal, page 86:
2. Pedantry; the quality of being pedantic.
   • It would be far better if the expression of the view of the Senate were arrived at without the necessity for pedantics—although I am not suggesting that pedantics are involved in this case—or the tagging on of things. -...
   • It has to be imaginative, but at the same time we have to do a certain amount of pedantics. What I might call pedantic research to answer the questions that our first witness has to have each year. - 1975, Agricultural...
   • The lack of pretension, mentioned above, is present in the music, also. Pomposity and pedantics are absent from this score. - 1955, Donald Belden Muir, John Dryden's Albion and Albanius and King Arthur: An Analysis of...