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Hairsplitter

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Noun
  1. 1
    A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).
  2. 2
    a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions wordnet

Etymology

From hair + splitter.

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