(Ävâ²Ä­d) adj. 1. Having or marked by keen interest and enthusiasm: an avid golfer; an avid interest in cooking. 2. Having or marked by strong desire or craving; greedy: an economy with an avid appetite for consumer goods.
Definition: Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate (usually because it is atypical or too small). Stereotypes about people (âlibrarians are shy and smart,â âwealthy people are snobs,â etc.) are a common example of the principle underlying hasty generalization.
Historical Examples. 1  He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 2  Yet his fluency never ran off into the fatal channels of verbosity. 3  I will answer briefly, not to bore both you and myself to death with verbosity and also because I have to write to many others.