“Didactic (adjective): Demonstrating intend to teach or edify; purposively instructive or informative; excessively earnest or pedantic, especially in a narrow, self-righteous way; moralistic. Adverb: didactically; noun: didact, didacticism, didactics.
‘One is literally fabulous. The other makes use of a dry, rather didactic style in which the detail is as precisely observed as if the author were writing a manual for the construction of a solar heating unit.’ Gore Vidal, Matters of Fact and Fiction”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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