'Malignancy' definitions:
Definition of 'malignancy'
From: WordNet
noun
(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death [syn: malignancy, malignance]
noun
Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: malignity, malignancy, malignance] [ant: benignancy, benignity, graciousness]
Definition of 'Malignancy'
From: GCIDE
- Malignance \Ma*lig"nance\, Malignancy \Ma*lig"nan*cy\, n. [See Malignant.]
- 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. [1913 Webster]
- The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.
- Syn: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor. [WordNet 1.5]
- 5. The state of being a malignant. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'malignancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- balefulness,
- banefulness,
- bitchiness,
- communicability,
- contagiousness,
- cussedness,
- deadliness,
- despite,
- destructiveness,
- detrimentalness,
- devilment,
- devilry,
- deviltry,
- evil intent,
- fatality,
- grudge,
- harmfulness,
- hatefulness,
- hurtfulness,
- ill will,
- infectiousness,
- infectivity,
- iniquitousness,
- injuriousness,
- invidiousness,
- lethality,
- maleficence,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malice aforethought,
- malice prepense,
- maliciousness,
- malignance,
- malignity,
- meanness,
- mischievousness,
- mortality,
- nastiness,
- noisomeness,
- noxiousness,
- ominousness,
- orneriness,
- perniciousness,
- poison,
- poisonousness,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- spleen,
- toxicity,
- unhealthiness,
- venom,
- venomousness,
- viciousness,
- virulence,
- virulency,
- wickedness
Words containing 'Malignancy'
- Malign,
- Malignance,
- Malignant,
- Maligned,
- Maligning,
- Malignity,
- Malignly,
- malignantly,
- maligner,
- malignment,
- Malignant lymphoma,
- Malignant pustule,
- Malignant tumor,
- malignant anaemia,
- malignant anemia,
- malignant growth,
- malignant hepatoma,
- malignant hypertension,
- malignant hyperthermia,
- malignant melanoma,
- malignant neoplasm,
- malignant neuroma,
- Malignant sore throat,
- malignant neoplastic disease