malignancy

English

Noun

malignancy (plural malignancies)

1. The state of being malignant or diseased.
2. A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
3. That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles^[1]:

     A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.

Antonyms

• benignancy

Translations

state of being malignant

Finnish: pahanlaatuisuus (fi)

malignant cancer

Irish: urchóid (ga) f.

desire to harm others

Finnish: pahanlaatuisuus (fi)