Hair-splitting
Translations of "hair-splitting" (8 languages)
| Language | Translation | Romanization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finnish | hiusten halkominen(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | — | |
| French | couper les cheveux en quatre(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent), diptérosodomie(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent), enculage de mouches(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent), pinaillage(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | — | |
| German | Haarspalterei(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | — | |
| Hungarian | szőrszálhasogatás(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | — | |
| Icelandic | hártogun(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | — | |
| Norwegian Bokmål | hårkløveri(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | — | |
| Russian | въе́дливость(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent), дото́шность(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent), зану́дство(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | vʺjédlivostʹ, dotóšnostʹ, zanúdstvo | |
| Swedish | hårklyveri(the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent) | — |
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