'Malignity' definitions:

Definition of 'malignity'

(from WordNet)
noun
Wishing evil to others [syn: malevolence, malignity] [ant: benevolence]
noun
Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: malignity, malignancy, malignance] [ant: benignancy, benignity, graciousness]

Definition of 'Malignity'

From: GCIDE
  • Malignity \Ma*lig"ni*ty\, n. [F. malignit['e], L. malignitas.]
  • 1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Virulence; deadly quality. [1913 Webster]
  • His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: See Malice. [1913 Webster]

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