hair-splittingly in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the gerund form of split hairs.",
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      "form": "more hair-splittingly",
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      "form": "most hair-splittingly",
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        "(idiomatic) With exceedingly small differences that are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people."
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  "etymology_text": "From the gerund form of split hairs.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hair-splittingly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hair-splittingly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "(idiomatic) With exceedingly small differences that are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people."
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"hair-splittingly" meaning in English

Adverb