malignancy

English

Etymology

malignant +‎ -cy or malign +‎ -ancy

Noun

malignancy (countable and uncountable, 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.
   • Shakespeare

     The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.

   • 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

Derived terms

• nonmalignancy
• premalignancy
• pseudomalignancy

Translations

state of being malignant

• Finnish: pahanlaatuisuus (fi)
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• Irish: urchóideacht f, aincis f

malignant cancer

• Irish: urchóid f, urchóideacht f
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desire to harm others

• Finnish: pahanlaatuisuus (fi)
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