hairsplittingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From splitting hairs, q.v.

発音

名詞

hair-splitting (countable and uncountable, plural hair-splittings)

1. (idiomatic, derogatory) The act of considering or arguing about exceedingly small differences, fine details, and/or edge cases of no seeming importance, worrying about minutiae.
   • 2014, Richard H. Immerman, The Hidden Hand: A Brief History of the CIA:

     Regardless of the ultimate judgment and any hair splitting, the CIA seemed to many Americans to have regressed to and even surpassed its criminal-like behavior during the pre-Church Committee hearings era.

同意語

• hair-splittery, pedantry, quibbling, pilpul, casuistry, casuistics; Jesuitism, Jesuitry (dated, derogatory)

形容詞

hair-splitting (comparative more hair-splitting, superlative most hair-splitting)

1. (idiomatic, derogatory) Of or characterized by hair-splitting, seeking or having exceedingly small differences, fine details, and/or edge cases of no seeming importance, concerning or concerned with minutiae.
   • 2006, Ian Aitken, in The Guardian, Richard Clements Obituary

     Dick's Tribune poked endless fun at the hair-splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time.

同意語

• pedantic, quibbling, casuistic, casuistical; jesuitic, jesuitical (Catholic or dated, derogatory); Talmudic, pilpulic, pilpulistic (Talmudic or derogatory)

派生語

参考

• split hairs, hairsplit, hairsplitter, hair-splittingly