All hairsplitting synonyms
hair·split·ting
H h noun hairsplitting
- nitpicking — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- carping — tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- quibbling — characterized by or consisting of quibbles; carping; niggling: quibbling debates.
- caviling — Present participle of cavil.
adjective hairsplitting
- cavilling — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.