hair-splitting
The act of considering or arguing about exceedingly small differences, fine details,…The act of considering or arguing about exceedingly small differences, fine details, and/or edge cases of no seeming importance, worrying about minutiae.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, derogatory, idiomatic, uncountable)The act of considering or arguing about exceedingly small differences, fine details, and/or edge cases of no seeming importance, worrying about minutiae.
Haarspalterei
дото́шностьdotóšnostʹ, зану́дствоzanúdstvo, въе́дливостьvʺjédlivostʹ
Translations
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Origin
From splitting hairs, q.v.From splitting hairs, q.v.
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Forms
plural: hair-splittingsSynonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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