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Nuanced vs Nitpicky - What's the difference?

nuanced | nitpicky |

As adjectives the difference between nuanced and nitpicky

is that nuanced is having nuances; possessed of multiple layers of detail, pattern, or meaning while nitpicky is finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.

nuanced

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having nuances; possessed of multiple layers of detail, pattern, or meaning
  • The setting sunlight played through the gently waving branches, creating subtly nuanced transitions of color and tone as the shadows swept back and forth in the rosy glow.
  • * 1989 , R. Kent Hughes, Preaching the Word: 1-9:1 :
  • I would like to have heard his intonation delicately nuanced so as to carry the greatest punch. I would like to have seen the changes of expression that played across his face as he spoke.''
  • * 1998 , Meredith Parsons Lillich, The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre :
  • ...the pattern normally straightens into an almost pure latticework of identical quarries and the foliage painting becomes much more nuanced and delicate.

    nitpicky

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nit-picky

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
  • Synonyms

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