- the act of giving too much importance to small and unimportant differences in an argument synonym quibbleTopics Opinion and argumentc2
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Idioms
See hair-splitting in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysplit hairs
- to pay too much attention in an argument to differences that are very small and not importantTopics Opinion and argumentc2
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