hairsplitter |
null |
As nouns the difference between hairsplitter and null
is that
hairsplitter is a person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them) while
null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.
pedant |
hairsplitter |
As nouns the difference between pedant and hairsplitter
is that
pedant is schoolmaster while
hairsplitter is a person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).
As an adjective pedant
is pedantic.