MALIGNITY

malignity, malignancy, malignance

(noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

malevolence, malignity

(noun) wishing evil to others

Source: WordNet® 3.1

malignity (countable and uncountable, plural malignities)

The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.

Source: Wiktionary

Ma*lig"ni*ty, n. Etym: [F. malignité, L. malignitas.]

1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward.

3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.]

Syn.

– See Malice.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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