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MALIGNANCY
malignity, malignancy, malignance
(noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignancy, malignance
(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
malignancy (countable and uncountable, plural malignancies)
The state of being malignant or diseased.
A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
Antonyms
• benignancy
• benignity
Source: Wiktionary
Ma*lig"nance, Ma*lig"nan*cy , n. Etym: [See Malignant.]
1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak.
3. (Med.)
Definition: Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
4. The state of being a malignant.
Syn.
– Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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