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Then you'd best learn what a portmanteau is then. 'Pedanticism' isn't one. It makes you sound as clever as a redneck copper using the word burglarise when they really mean burgle.

Sorry to break it to you but making up words by nouning adjectives is usually a good indicator that you don't have a particularly large vocabulary. Synonyms are where it's at if you're trying to convince people that you're a wordsmith.

Pedantry. The word is pedantry.