Usually means: Excessively fine distinctions in reasoning.
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  1. hairsplitting: Merriam-Webster
  2. hairsplitting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hairsplitting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hairsplitting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hairsplitting: Vocabulary.com
  6. hairsplitting: Wordnik
  7. hairsplitting: Wiktionary
  8. hairsplitting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hairsplitting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hairsplitting: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hairsplitting, hairsplitting: Dictionary.com
  12. Hairsplitting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hairsplitting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. hairsplitting: Rhymezone
  15. Hairsplitting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hairsplitting: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hairsplitting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hairsplitting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  The act of considering or arguing about fine details, or worrying about minutiae.

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