Irregardless, pedants are individuals who make excessive displays of their own knowledge based on formal rules and overly precise details with an enormity that disregards common sense. Pedantry represents a behaviour and as such can potentially be explained through psychology/neuroscience/scientific just-so stories.
The ESFP – Pedantic People.
A pedant (/ˈpɛd. ənt/ PED-ent) is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.
The best possible solution is to move away, cut them off from your life. These people are annoying to no end. But if you can't do that, then you have to learn to tolerate him or her. Treat whatever they say as nonsense and laugh it off or make a nice joke about it, make them laugh it off.
(pɪdæntɪk ) adjective. If you say someone is pedantic, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects.
While didactic can have a neutral meaning, pedantic is almost always an insult, referring to someone who is annoying for their attention to minor detail, or snobbish expertise in a narrow or boring topic.
Like didactic, describing someone or something as pedantic typically carries a negative connotation. It's typically used as an adjective when you find a scrupulous focus on details annoying.
A pedantic might be a person who uses very technical language in their day to day conversations. For example, “I do not like speaking to Amy, I feel as though I need to have a thesaurus and a dictionary on hand every time we have a conversation.”
Intuitive Thinking personality types are the most likely of all of the types to be argumentative, according to research led by Donald Loffredo, Ed. D, at the University of Houston. ENTJs in particular tended to score as highly argumentative.
ISTJ. Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions.
ESTJs have a tendency to think they are always right and that their moral compass is objective, absolute and universal.
A pedant, or someone who exhibits pedantic behavior, will correct small mistakes that are not necessarily important in the broader scheme of things. E.g. The professor's remarks on the thesis were extremely pedantic, as he criticized even the most minute points. Related terms: Didacticism, hyperbole, tone.
Finally, it has been suggested that public pedantry is a way for individuals to identify with and signal they are part of a group. Social identity theory states we seek to have our group valued positively relative to other groups to improve our self-concept.
In psychiatry, stilted speech or pedantic speech is communication characterized by situationally inappropriate formality. This formality can be expressed both through abnormal prosody as well as speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint".
Sesquipedalian can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. If someone gives a sesquipedalian speech, people often assume it was smart, even if they don't really know what it was about because they can't understand the words.
abstruse, pompous, stilted, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular.
When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.
know-all. noun. Britishinformal someone who is annoying because they always think that they know everything.
Downers are also known as Negative Nancys or Debbie Downers. They always have something bad to say. They complain, critique and judge.
Pessimistic describes the state of mind of someone who always expects the worst. A pessimistic attitude isn't very hopeful, shows little optimism, and can be a downer for everyone else. To be pessimistic means you believe evil outweighs the good and that bad things are more likely to happen.
Gaslighters/narcissists can never fully compliment someone unless there is an insult tied to it. In broad terms, it's sometimes known as a “backhanded compliment.” An example would be, “I like your dress, it almost fits you.” The compliment-insult, or complisult, first sets you up, trusting the person ever so slightly.
adjective. over·nice ˌō-vər-ˈnīs. Synonyms of overnice. : excessively nice: such as. : excessively pleasant or agreeable.
The most important point to remember is to never challenge him to work faster or to break the rules for you. Keep any frustration you may feel with him under wraps and speak to him calmly. Explain the situation and the deadline, and the cost of not meeting that deadline, and ask him if that cost can be afforded.
Pedantic means being overly scrupulous in your assessment. In other words, sticking too closely to strict definitions at the cost of the overall meaning. Semantic means pertaining to meaning in language. They are not interchangeable, though they are frequently used that way.