Meaning of hair-splitting | Babel Free
Definitions
the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
countable, idiomatic, uncountable
Equivalents
Examples
“2006, Ian Aitken, in The Guardian, Richard Clements Obituary Dick's Tribune poked endless fun at the hair-splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.