Malignancy

Full definition of malignancy

Noun

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.
• ShakespeareThe malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
• 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 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