Pedanty vs. Pedantry — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pedanty and Pedantry

(obsolete) An assembly or clique of pedants.

Excessive concern with minor details and rules

To object to this is not mere pedantry

An assembly or clique of pedants.

The ostentatious display of academic knowledge, or undue attention paid to minor details or formal rules

His detailed research was dismissed as pedantry.

An instance of pedantic behavior

Grew tired of his pedantries.

An excessive attention to detail or rules.

An instance of such behaviour.

I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.

An overly ambitious display of learning.

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry.

A ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning