pedanticism

[puh-dan-tuh-siz-uhm]

pe·dan·ti·cism

[puh-dan-tuh-siz-uhm]
noun
Also, ped·ant·ism [ped-n-tiz-uhm] .


Origin:
1840–50; pedantic + -ism
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Pedanticism is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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