nitpickiness en · NOUN
Etymology
From nitpicky + -ness.
Meanings
-
(uncountable) The quality of being nitpicky; pedantry over trivia.
Putting aside the nitpickiness of the complaint — “plenitude” originates in Latin, “fullness” doesn’t — “plenitude” also has philosophical associations running from Aristotle to St. Thomas Aquinas to David Lewis.
2007 July 29, David Orr, “Translating Zbigniew Herbert”, in New York Times: