📚pedantry (pédantri)

noun
/ˈpɛd.ən.tri/
préoccupation excessive pour les détails ou les règles mineures (preoccupation excessive pour les details ou les regles mineures)

Signification

Excessive concern with minor details or rules.
Traduction de la signification
Préoccupation excessive pour les détails ou les règles mineures.
Preoccupation excessive pour les details ou les regles mineures.

Phrases d'exemple

His pedantry made the meeting unnecessarily long.

Sa pédanterie a rendu la réunion inutilement longue.
Sa pedanterie a rendu la reunion inutilement longue.

Synonymes

dogmatism, literalism, nitpicking, meticulousness

Antonymes

flexibility, creativity

Collocations

display pedantry, academic pedantry, legal pedantry

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