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1 : a brief authoritative formula of religious belief the Nicene Creed. 2 : a set of fundamental beliefs also : a guiding principle Never settle for mediocrity is his creed. —
SYNONYMS. instructive, instructional, educational, educative, informative, informational, doctrinal, preceptive, teaching, pedagogic, academic, scholastic, tuitional. edifying, improving, enlightening, illuminating, heuristic. pedantic, moralistic, homiletic.
1a : designed or intended to teach. b : intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment didactic poetry. 2 : making moral observations.
While didactics is a discipline that is essentially concerned with the science of teaching and instruction for any given field of study, pedagogy is focused more specifically on the strategies, methods and various techniques associated with teaching and instruction.
Didactic can have a neutral meaning of “designed or intended to teach people something,” but often didactic is used when the lesson being taught is annoying or unwanted—such as an attempt to school people on what’s proper or moral. ‘Pedantic’ describes a particular kind of annoying person.
A xylophile is someone who loves wood, just as a cartophile loves maps and presumably a xylocartophile would love wooden maps or perhaps maps of woodlands? The prefix xylo- is used in compound words relating to wood and comes from the Greek word xulon which means wood.
Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.