• (n.) The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.
Ped'ant·ism noun The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry. [ Obsolete]
pedantism 1. The office of a teacher or schoolmaster; also, the state of being under a teacher; pupilage. 2. The ostentatiousness or formalism of a pedant; pedantry. 3. A pedantic action, expression, or trait.