overnicety
Look at other dictionaries:
overnicety — n., pl. overniceties. * * * … Universalium
hairsplitting — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, contradistinction, critical,… … Moby Thesaurus
hypersensitivity — Synonyms and related words: allergy, anaphylaxis, considerateness, delicacy, empathy, exquisiteness, fineness, hairsplitting, hypercriticism, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitiveness, identification, irritability, morbid sensibility,… … Moby Thesaurus
precision — precision, preciseness both denote the quality or character of what is precise. Precision denotes a quality that is sought for or is attained usually as a highly desirable thing. When used in reference to language it implies expression with such… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
mannerism — 1. affectation, pretension, exaggeration, pretense, insincerity, airs, (esp. in Victorian England) prunes and prisms; artificiality, unnaturalness, manneredness, artifice, overelegance, overelaboration, overniceness, overnicety, overrefinement;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
su|per|sub|tle|ty — «SOO puhr SUHT uhl tee», noun, plural ties. excessive subtlety; overnicety of discrimination … Useful english dictionary
