Yes the word nitpicking is a noun. It is a process of pointing out minute details.
That is the correct spelling of "nitpicking" (finding small faults).
rectal compulsive nitpicking
She was nitpicking at everything her sister said because she was in a very grouchy mood. =]
She still loved him, but his constant nitpicking started to enervate her. The word enervate can be used as a verb or an adjective.
In his own nitpicking mind!
They don't mean the very same thing. Critical means nitpicking. Essential means necessary. However, some people do say that they are the similar as critical also means exacting.
Giving excessive attention to the details of a speech can be an example of perfectionism or nitpicking, where the focus is overly on minor flaws or errors. It can also indicate a meticulous or precise approach to communication.
Years later, the hardworking doctoral candidate confided that she was so sleep-deprived going into the defense of her dissertation that she had feared her answers would be spewed out without the slightest relation to the nitpicking questions of the examining committee members.
Generally, problems and equations are considered fact, and would not be protected, although related text can be. Also, mathematicians have been correcting and nitpicking each other's work for centuries.
Some synonyms for the word 'fussy' include: choosy, careful, conscientious, conscionable, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exacting, exact, fastidious, finicky, finical, fretful, hard to please, meticulous, nitpicking, overfastidious, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, punctilious, querulous, and stickling.
The noun form of the verb "noun" is "noun-ness" or "nominalization."
Proper noun