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Often used in the same context:
pedantry,
sophistry,
prolixity,
argumentation,
irrelevancies,
circumlocution,
semantics,
caviling,
dissembling,
disputation,
verbiage,
doubletalk,
sophist,
ipse dixit,
attitudinizing,
indefiniteness,
doublespeak,
casuistry,
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,
sophistic,
gobbledygook,
obtuseness,
subjunctive,
tendentiousness,
mumbo jumbo,
indirectness,
vagueness,
bafflegab,
folderol,
incommensurability,
superfluity,
wordiness,
buncombe,
gallimaufry,
hyperbole,
inexactitude,
revisionism,
technobabble,
exculpation,
picayune,
speciesist,
obiter dictum,
legalese,
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,
officiousness,
elide,
doublethink,
ambiguousness,
monomania,
quibbling,
quibbles,
niceties,
nicety,
quibble,
subtleties,
wrangling,
disputations,
sleight,
wranglings,
legerdemain,
technicalities,
confusions
More general:
differentiation,
distinction
Synonyms:
finespun,
precise,
word-splitting
Also try:
— Adjectives for hairsplitting:
theological,
legal,
mere,
such,
academic,
scholastic,
legalistic,
semantic,
much,
philosophical,
ideological,
more...
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