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This is a request of help for the connotations of a word
If native speakers hear the word, pedantry, does it assume an air of showy, academically pompous, impudent impression to them?
Would this word or these words, pedantry or pedant, mean a person who is excessively fussy on academic minutia and thus a bit irritable to us?
... and thus a bit irritable to us?
No, there is nothing about the definition of pedant or pedantry that relates to people's reactions to the behavior, just as there is nothing about the definition of murder that relates to the way people react to it.
And words do not "assume airs". Speakers assume airs.
The basic meanings of those words can be found in good dictionaries.
