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Word-splitting   /wərd-splˈɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Word-splitting

noun
1.
Making too fine distinctions of little importance.  Synonym: hairsplitting.





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"Word-splitting" Quotes from Famous Books



... swarmed at Athens in the fourth century before Christ. As in the opening of the Dialogue he ridicules the interpreters of mythology; as in the Protagoras he mocks at the Sophists; as in the Euthydemus he makes fun of the word-splitting Eristics; as in the Cratylus he ridicules the fancies of Etymologers; as in the Meno and Gorgias and some other dialogues he makes reflections and casts sly imputation upon the higher classes at Athens; so ...
— Phaedrus • Plato


Words linked to "Word-splitting" :   distinction, differentiation


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