hair-splitting
Noun
Meaning
hair-splitting (countable and uncountable, plural hair-splittings)
(idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
Alternative names
hair splitting
Synonyms
pedantic
finicky
captious
hypercritical
pedantry
casuistic
niggling
sophistical
persnickety
overnice
quibbling
carping
hairsplitting
cavilling
pettifogging
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