pedantism

plural pedantisms

1. Behaving or acting in the manner of a pedant; pedantry.First known use 16th c.

   In this queer pedantism of a man who had read, thought, lived, pen in hand, there is the sincerity of the attempt to grapple by the same means with another profounder knowledge.

   1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, Penguin Classics, published 2007, page 294

   Synonyms: pedanticism, pedantry