Ostentation vs Pedant - What's the difference?
ostentation | pedant |
Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
(obsolete) A show or spectacle.
* 1599 ,
(archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
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A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.
(label) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
As nouns the difference between ostentation and pedant
is that ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause while pedant is a teacher or schoolmaster.ostentation
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
- And publish it that she is dead indeed:
- Maintain a mourning ostentation ;
Synonyms
* parade * pageantry * show * showiness * pomp * pompousness * vaunting * boasting * See alsoExternal links
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* * *pedant
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante''] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of ''Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.