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hairsplitting
 
Adjective hairsplitting has 1 sense
  1. finespun, hairsplitting - developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
    Antonym: imprecise (indirect, via precise)
Noun hairsplitting has 1 sense
  1. hairsplitting, word-splitting - making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"
    --1 is a kind of differentiation, distinction
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