hairsplitting Definition

precise, finespun, word-splitting, pedantry, sophistry, argumentation, disputation, prolixity, circumlocution, sophist, casuistry, verbiage, sophistic, legalese, irrelevancies, semantics, caviling, dissembling, doubletalk, ipse dixit, attitudinizing, indefiniteness, doublespeak, textualism, logical fallacy, tautologies, textualist, obfuscation, logicians, nitpicking, disingenuity, vagary, literalism, polemics, split infinitive, demagoguery, illogic, journalese, disquisitions, charlatanry, commonplaces, dilettantism, ineffectuality, explications, incoherency, clownishness, absurdity, wrongheadedness, pedants, syllogisms, inanity, preambles, gobbledygook, obtuseness, subjunctive, tendentiousness, mumbo jumbo, indirectness, vagueness, bafflegab, folderol, incommensurability, superfluity, wordiness, buncombe, gallimaufry, hyperbole, inexactitude, revisionism, technobabble, exculpation, picayune, speciesist, obiter dictum, legalism, mendacity, facetiousness, grammarians, caselaw, indeterminacy, monism, parsing, pusillanimity, pompousness, bloviation, antonym, incuriosity, prepositional phrase, didacticism, surplusage, dogmatist, obiter dicta, parti pris, presentism, boneheadedness, literalness, irreconcilability, prevarication, arguers, blatancy,