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Pedantry
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the practice of being overly focused on minor details, formal rules, or showing off academic knowledge in an unnecessary way
Example
The meeting was bogged down by his constant pedantry about protocol.
Critics accused the scholar of pedantry, making his research inaccessible to a general audience.
The professor ’s lectures were filled with pedantry, overwhelming students with trivial details.