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What is the noun for nitpicks?

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nitpicking
  1. The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.
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    1. “Are you accidentally triggering grumpy outbursts with your silly jokes, or unknowingly fueling the toxic fire with your constant nitpicking?”
      “Well you could say it's a deal of nitpicking by pedantic scientists over detail.”
      “He may start nitpicking over virtually every script point, insisting on protracted creative colloquies with his director.”
nitpickiness
  1. The quality of being nitpicky; pedantry over trivia.
nitpicker
  1. One who nitpicks (finds fault in unimportant details).
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    1. “Only a mean-spirited nitpicker would draw public attention to unimportant or isolated textbook errors.”
      “Although she declines to use the title, Abigail F. Rosenfeld, a thirty-five-year-old Borough Park mother of ten, is a nitpicker of extreme, if secret, renown.”
      “According to some nitpicker at the Ohio Department of Education, Mrs. Roberta Erwin retired and left teaching entirely in 1967, Two years before my birth.”
nitpickery
  1. nitpicking behaviour
nitpickings
nitpickers
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