'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]
Words containing 'Malignity'
- Malign,
- Malignance,
- Malignancy,
- Malignant,
- Maligned,
- Maligning,
- 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