"hair-splittingly" meaning in All languages combined

See hair-splittingly on Wiktionary

Adverb [English]

Audio: en-au-hair-splittingly.ogg Forms: more hair-splittingly [comparative], most hair-splittingly [superlative]
Etymology: From the gerund form of split hairs. Head templates: {{en-adv}} hair-splittingly (comparative more hair-splittingly, superlative most hair-splittingly)
  1. (idiomatic) With exceedingly small differences that are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-hair-splittingly-en-adv-bC5Cs2C8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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