The term pedantic is an adjective that is used recurrently in everyday speech, which refers to a person who often improperly boasts of all the knowledge he possesses. In general, these types of people do not refer only to the knowledge they have, since in general they tend to flaunt all those aspects in which they consider themselves superior to other people. It is important to highlight the fact that on many occasions that superiority of which said person presumes is not real, however his way of being makes people assume that what he says is real.
The origin of the term comes from the Italian language, and is generally related to scholarship, since in ancient times in the Italian language, teachers who imparted their knowledge of grammars to students in a school were called pedantic, or Failing that he did it at their home. The fact was that at that time the requirements of this type of home teachers were very low, therefore those people who requested this service, demanded that said person really possess great knowledge in order to teach their children, in a few words the best possible tutor was sought.
For a person to be hired by someone as a home teacher at that time, they were really very severe and it was since then that it began to be used as a negative term, since in addition to the great knowledge they should have, they had to develop a rivalry with the rest of the postulates to work.
The attitude that pedantic people usually have is that of wise men, in general they tend to boast that they are very cultured people, which sometimes is usually just a facade since, on the contrary, they do not usually have any knowledge, they simply show off with the objective of presenting himself as someone who is superior to other people, which can be detrimental to himself in the long run, since people tend to withdraw from people of this type.
