Hairsplitting Definition

hârsplĭtĭng
noun
The making of unreasonably fine distinctions.
American Heritage

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

Wiktionary
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adjective
(a) Making overnice or petty distinctions; quibbling.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Hairsplitting

Noun

Singular:
hairsplitting
Plural:
hairsplittings

Hairsplitting Sentence Examples

  • Hairsplitting, even when mischievous in intent, leads to distinctions of value.

  • In every branch of human effort the mania for hairsplitting and classification is harmful and even impossible, as in the attempt to distinguish between practice and science!

  • But nominalism was powerless to inspire theology with new life; on the contrary, its intervention only increased the inextricable tangle of the hairsplitting questions with which theology busied itself, and made their solution more and more impossible.

  • This dialectic, initiated by Euclides, became more and more opposed to the testimony of experience; in the hands of Eubulides and Alexinus it degenerated into hairsplitting, mainly in the form of the reductio ad absurdum.

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