what does word-splitting mean?
WORD-SPLITTING as NOUN
- Meaning
- making too fine distinctions of little importance
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- they didn”t take his hairsplitting seriously
Hypernyms(s) word-splitting is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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