pedancy

English

Etymology

From pedant +‎ -cy.

Noun

pedancy (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard) Pedantry; pedanticness.
   • 2008, Max Afford, The Sheep and the Wolves, page 97:

     It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom.

   • 2009, Joz Rhodes, The Dark Alternative, →ISBN, page 122:

     From there they were taken down, carted off to whichever State Penitentiary and assigned their own little cube to sit in and stew, while a barrage of courts and lawyers fought over deadlines and appeals and legal pedancy and the whole process ground on almost exactly as it always had before.

   • 2013, G. Kampis, Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN:

     Also, for the sake of pedancy, instead of the same R we ought to use different symbols in (1) and (2), but this is unlikely to cause difficulty.

   • 2013, James D. G. Dunn, Four Views on the Role of Works at the Final Judgment, Zondervan, →ISBN, pages 58–59:

     To take such expressions as literal statements of fact runs so counter to the experience of Christians from day one as to undermine any belief in them. A literary pedancy makes such biblical language less credible, not more credible.

Usage notes

Many consider the term pedancy to be incorrect, and that the correct term is pedantry.